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⭐️ NEW BOOK ⭐️

Boundary Hunt (2026) by Toshio Shibata
published by

Boundary Hunt, by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata, is a series produced in Japan and the United States between 2000 and 2004, a period during which the artist was experimenting with new techniques and shifting his focus to colour photography after two decades of working in black and white. For Boundary Hunt, Shibata used Polaroid Type 55, a black-and-white positive-to-negative film that could be developed to produce a negative, which could then be enlarged.
From his early days as a photographer in the early 1980s, Shibata identified infrastructure as his subject of choice, as it is both evocative of the contemporary world whilst remaining timeless.
The title of the series evokes both the intersection between the natural and artificial worlds where Shibata situates his practice, and the unusual border created by the Type 55 film around the image. After a few initial experiments, Shibata decided to incorporate these borders into the images of the series, as they seemed to enter into a dialogue with these landscapes blending natural elements and concrete. A hunt that continues at the boundary of these two worlds.
The book Boundary Hunt contains 34 black-and-white photographs, most of which are published here for the first time.

✨BOOK PRESENTATION✨

Wednesday, the 20th, 7pm

Altera Italia (2026) by
published by
with Alessia Rollo and .costagliola

Altera Italia is a photographic and anthropological project that explores the ritual imagery of Southern Italy, reinterpreting its visual history and reworking the stereotypes inherited from the neorealism of the last century.
Altera Italia is the result of a five-year research project, launched in 2019 and developed as a multidisciplinary initiative that intertwines photography, archival materials, video, and animation.
This work reexamines the cultural identity of Southern Italy by critically re-evaluating the visual legacy produced in the 1950s and 1960s by anthropologists, filmmakers, and photographers associated with Ernesto De Martino’s expeditions, who helped solidify the image of the South as an archaic and superstitious place.
The research is divided into two main strands: the manipulation of archival materials from the neorealist period, reprocessed using analog and digital techniques, painting on negatives, collages, and perforations, to reintroduce into the images the magical-ritual horizon that was originally removed, and documentation of contemporary rituals still practiced in six regions of Southern Italy, photographed not with a taxonomic intent but as a perceptual and symbolic immersion, capable of making visible what belongs to the believer-participant and not to the outside observer.
The result is an evocative, sensory, and spiritual imagery that restores a sense of complexity to the festivals and communal practices that continue to this day to bring entire communities together and foster a shared sense of belonging.