
La Cattedrale
- Publisher
- Witty Books
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 979-12-80177-08-7
- Specifications
- Softcover Otabind
21 x 25 cm
100 pages
500 copies
Text by Bruno de Franceschi
Design by Federico Barbon
With the support of FOLIO, PhMuseum
Award Books & Others by ICA Milano, Best book 2021
PHotoESPANA 2022, shortlisted
It's surprising how often memories appear to us in visual form, similar to snapshots in the psyche that only time can erase. After careful reflection, sight is not only the product of the activity of our eyes — it is also and above all the gaze of our mind through memory. This visual nature of the past gives shape to our memories yet does not fit, in appearance, with blindness; hence Riccardo Svelto wanted to probe this aspect, trying to tell the fear of losing sight. But how can the loss of sight be told visually? Starting from this apparently irresolvable contradiction, the search for a visual narration of the fear of losing sight is closely linked to memory. The title is drawn from the last story in Raymond Carver's Cathedral. Winner FOLIO PhMuseum 2020. Award Books & Others ICA Milano, Best book 2021. PHotoESPAÑA 2022, shortlisted.