Tales of the Unwritten: A Tribute to Street Photography

634 Pages·2021·59 MB·English

by  Exhibit Around Project

Project by dotART - Art Association / Exhibit Around
Registered oïce Via del Veltro 30 - 34137 Trieste, Italy
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Cover photo Karolina Trapp (Women Street Photographers)
Graphic design Studio graoco Stefano Ambroset
© 2021 All photos owned by the named photographer
A TRIBUTE TO STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
thanks to our very special guests
ACT I ORDINARY WORLD 6
Chapter 01 The Hero9s Everyday Life ........................................... 8
The Collectives Bulb Photos .................................................................... 26
Chapter 02 Call to Adventure .......................................................... 92
Chapter 03 Refuse of the Call ......................................................... 102
Chapter 04 The Mentor ...................................................................... 114
The Collectives iN-PUBLiC ....................................................................... 148
Chapter 05 Crossing the Threshold............................................... 162
ACT II SPECIAL WORLD 182
Chapter 06 The Road of Trials, Fun & Games ........................... 184
Chapter 07 The Underworld ............................................................. 252
The Collectives Observe............................................................................. 302
Chapter 08 Midpoint .......................................................................... 330
Chapter 09 The Reward ..................................................................... 342
Chapter 10 The Road Back ................................................................ 390
The Collectives Un-Posed .......................................................................... 420
ACT III BACK TO ORDINARY WORLD 434
Chapter 11 Climax ............................................................................... 436
The Collectives VoidTokyo........................................................................ 478
Chapter 12 New Equilibrium ........................................................... 492
The Collectives Women Street Photographers .................................. 562
Credits All the authors of the Project ................................... 628
THE «HERO’S JOURNEY»
IN TRIBUTE TO STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Every year Italian cultural association dotART involves photographers from all over the world in publishing and exhibition
projects through its platform Exhibit Around.
These projects result in photo books and group exhibitions that culminate during Trieste Photo Days, the international photo
festival that dotART has been organising since 2014.
During its eight editions, Trieste Photo Days has hosted some of the world9s greatest street photographers: Martin Parr, Alex
Webb, Bruce Gilden, Nick Turpin and many others, establishing itself as a European reference point for all lovers of urban
photography.
Tales of the Unwritten was born with the aim of celebrating urban photography.
The project took shape at the end of 2020 with an open call on Exhibit Around. The idea is to create a big collective tribute to
street photography, inviting the most important street collectives in activity as special guests of the project: BULB Photos, iN-
PUBLiC, Observe, Un-posed, VoidTokyo and Women Street Photographers.
The open call for Tales of the Unwritten was an incredible success and attracted 5,000 photos and 270 portfolios from over
620 photographers.
After careful curatorial work, the dotART staf selects 189 authors from ove continents, who oïcially become part of the
project together with the photographers of the collectives.
The result is the full-bodied volume you are holding in your hands, from which a major group exhibition will be based as part
of the 2021 edition of Trieste Photo Days.
Tales of the Unwritten contains dozens of small and big stories told through street photography: an immediate and real
photographic genre that reveals unseen aspects of society, hidden corners of urban spaces, contrasts and contradictions of our
time, celebrations of beauty or chronicles of urban decay.
In just one word: stories.
Hence the title of the project and the idea of structuring the volume in twelve chapters freely inspired by the stages of the
<hero9s journey=: a narrative model that deones the structure at the basis of modern stories. In its inonite variations, this model
is widely used in cinema but has its roots in Aristotle9s times. It has been analysed, reoned, updated, overturned, denied, and
rehabilitated by experts in narratology such as Joseph Campbell, Christopher Vogler, Dara Marks, John Truby, John Yorke and
Robert McKee. And now, with a few <detours= here and there, Tales of the Unwritten also tries to follow this three-act path with
street photography.
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Tania Barbagli
Yellow In Brooklyn
ACT I
ORDINARY WORLD
CHAPTER 01
CHAPTER 01
Eduard Maiterth
Untitled #01
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