Michela Battaglia, Carissimo Iosif

Carissimo Iosif

Michela Battaglia

Publisher
89books
Year
2025
ISBN
979-12-82350-08-2
Specifications
Softcover with dust jacket
16 x 21 cm
132 pages
95 color photographs
Digital print
40 pages text booklet
Text by Michela Battaglia
Design by Michela Battaglia

Dearest Joseph (2019 — 2021) is an epistolary tale set in Venice. A dialogue between two languages – photography and prose – and a third interlocutor: Joseph Brodsky. It is a story that unfolds after the end of a relationship, when love endures nonetheless. A time of emotional mourning. The after is never clearly defined; its edges remain uncertain, malleable — stretch marks of the soul. A year lasts a day; four seasons become four years, four journeys. Twenty-four hours.

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