Reportages Photography by Luca di Filippo
Allevi in London
The private face of a public instrument
Italian pianist and composer Giovanni Allevi, documented in London before and after a performance. The backstage, the soundcheck, the signing queue, the empty hall after. The music is not in the photographs. What is in the photographs is what the music costs.
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Feel Bruges
A city that knows itself
Still water, still light. A December weekend and the specific silence of a place that has been beautiful for so long it no longer needs to announce it. The reflections are almost better than the things they reflect.
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Spirit of Istanbul
A city that exists in at least two tenses at once
Bosphorus light and suspension. The strait as the actual subject: everything on either side of it is defined by what it is not. Thirty-two images from a city that has been negotiating its own contradictions for longer than most cities have existed.
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Morocco: Al Magrib
Light that comes from everywhere and casts shadow accordingly
Fifty-one images from the medinas, deserts, and mountain roads of Morocco. The tanneries, the souks, the Sahara at golden hour, the Atlas in cloud. A country that has been photographed so many times that the only honest approach is to photograph what you actually saw.
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If Only Paris
A city read through its surfaces
Sepia light and the specific grammar of looking up. Signs, silhouettes, stone. Paris resists the camera and rewards patience. These images were made in the gaps between the obvious photographs.
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Roaming Around Georgia
Light that arrives horizontally
Eight days in the eastern regions. Mtskheta, Gori, Uplistsikhe, the Alazani valley. A country where the landscape is theological and the food is an argument for staying. The light in the late afternoon is the reason for all of it.
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Tbilisi: Details & Textures
A city read at close range
Eighty-six images of surface, material, and the weight of accumulated time. The peeling paint, the carved balcony rail, the worn doorstep. Tbilisi is a city that has been rebuilt, destroyed, and rebuilt again, and every version left something behind.
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Timo Maas: Shoreditch
The particular quality of light in a room that is fully alive
Seventy-seven frames from a night with DJ and producer Timo Maas at a Shoreditch Halloween party. Music, crowd, and the before and after that most documentation ignores. The dancefloor at peak density. The venue in morning light.
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