Paolo Zerbini – ‘Tagada’

Tagada collects Paolo Zerbini’s photographs of various carnivals and fairs in rural Italy, made on film in the 2010s. I picked it up sorta by chance after visiting the publisher’s website to order a different book—Francesco Colleta’s ‘Foto Casti‘—which was, itself, an impulse purchase made after seeing a review somewhere. Given my love of theme …

The 2024 Solar Eclipse on Film…

If you were alive and paying even a tiny bit of attention on April 8, 2024, you probably heard about or saw coverage of the solar eclipse that passed over a small portion of the United States (and elsewhere). By a God-given coincidence, my house was in the path of totality and I work from …

Piergiorgio Casotti & Emanuele Brutti – ‘Index G’

I don’t know how or from where Piergiorgio Casotti & Emanuele Brutti’s Index G came on my radar. Jörg Colberg was my first guess, and if so, I find no mention of Casotti or Brutti or the title on his blog. It wasn’t @swerdnaekalb either, nor was it Charcoal Book Club…. Maybe it was something …

Daniel Reuter – ‘Providencia’

I pulled Daniel Reuter’s Providencia off the to-review shelves largely based on the attractive spine (gold lettering against mottled/variegated grey :chef’s kiss:). I don’t remember the circumstances around acquiring it, and expect I bought it based on Jorg Colberg’s review. I encourage you to read Colberg’s take, as mine is likely to be much more …