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'Il Corpo Del Capitano' / 'The Captain's Body' - Luca Santese & Marco P. Valli

In 2018, photographers Luca Santese and Marco P. Valli documented the birth of the so-called Third Republic in a critical-satirical way. After the end of the First Conte Government, their research focused on Matteo Salvini - the political leader of the Italian Lega - and center-right forces. His voters call him “The Captain”. Salvini’s propaganda style is highly innovative: he is constantly photographing himself, his daily life and his body, to come across as a ‘man of the people’.
With millions following him, Salvini reaches his public directly through social media.
“The Captain’s Body” relies on an organic and detailed documentation of Salvini’s activities that openly and radically hinders the way Salvini portrays himself. His likeable, colourful, “pop” aesthetics is opposed by a rigorous black and white, obscure and dystopic. Such an inversion doesn’t just concern the photographs’ style, but also their narrative sequence. At the beginning of the book, one might have the feeling that the project is truthfully and ironically documenting different perspectives of Salvini’s propaganda; However, the work transforms into a counter-propaganda, as Santese and Valli put forward their own imaginary storytelling: a definite response to the factious narrative that “the captain” often uses. Salvini has shown the ability to embody dozens of different roles: from “Padanian” to Italian nationalist, from family man to boyfriend, from gluttonous to supporter, from scraper driver to sweatshirt wearer, thus allowing the study of a multitude of bodies converging into one: the Captain’s Body

For more information:
http://www.cesurapublish.com/index.php?/projects/the-captains-body/
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CESURA FANZINE #03

Cesura Fanzine #03 is a zine with a soul. Featuring a selection of the collective’s work, this new group publication revolves around the visual, physical and philosophical idea of “cesura”, which literally means “cut”.
An added feature is the chance to catch a glimpse of Cesura’s headquarters, located far away in nature. By cutting through the pages, the zine expands and unlocks an unpublished selection of everyday life images taken over a span of 12 years.
Photos by Arianna Arcara, Francesco Bellina, Stefania Bosso, Teresa Dalle Carbonare, Maria Elisa Ferraris, Chiara Fossati, Giacomo Liverani, Alex Majoli, Claudio Majorana, Gabriele Micalizzi, Valentina Neri, Andy Rocchelli, Alessandro Sala, Giorgio Salimeni, Luca Santese, Marco P. Valli, Marco Zanella, Alex Zoboli.

For more information:
http://www.cesurapublish.com/index.php?/projects/cesura-fanzine-03/
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