Arianna Arcara’s and Marco zanella’s work done in Moldavia is part of the collective exhibition Testimone Oculare at SiFest 2023.

Arianna Arcara, Marco Zanella , Cristina De Middel and Lorenzo Vitturi thanks to a collaboration with casa Circondariale di Forlì, met five inmates and put themselves at their disposal to report what each of them wished they could see, or see again, in the outside world.
The result is an investigation that crosses the prison walls and becomes a series of projects that are planned and produced on equal terms by the photographers and the inmates.

Opening weekend September 8-9-10, Consorzio di Bonifica, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy.
The exhibition will also be open on September 16/17 and 23/24.

Cesura Publish’s booth will be present all weekend in one large space dedicated to photo books in the “Dante Alighieri” elementary school gymnasium.

@Arianna_Arcara @Mrz.zanella @laDeMiddel @LorenzoVitturi @AlexMajoliPhoto @SiFest

TU is a temporary photographic installation by Giorgio Salimeni in Nibbiano, Alta Val Tidone, Italy.
It will be possible to visit the exhibition during Spazio Confluenze Festival.
TU is the name of the small hill that located behind the village of Nibbiano.
It is the symbol of a community where time flows slowly, to the rhythm of a river.
Young people grow up there and from there face the world that awaits them outside. Those who stay welcome those who arrive.
The exhibition will be on view until the end of August.

@GiorgioSalimeni @SpazioConfluenze

Almanacco Toilet Club by Valentina Neri will be exhibited at Mosaico Festival in Piazza Armerina, Sicily. Opening August 3rd at 6PM at Atrio Biblioteca, Largo Collegio 20.
Curated by Due Lab Gallery Thanks Mattia Stompo and Carmelo Stompo

Almanacco Toilet Club was released by Cesura Publish in 2018.

From 2014 to 2016, Valentina Neri worked on a photo project about a group of Drag Queens who created a club night that quickly became one of the most important and well known in Milan’s LGBTQIA*+ scene. After portraying the Queens’ growth and the colourful atmosphere of those nights, Valentina focused on the projects’ output; the main inspiration for the book Almanacco is “La Scena Illustrata 1941”, an influential Italian monthly publication born in 1884, that focused on current events with an ironic and straight-forward style. Her research drove her to illustrate and depict the queer world while experimenting with different mediums: a mix of photographs, descriptions, titles, and illustrations enclosed in a “fascist” layout (inspired by the original magazine’s design) give readers and viewers a broader spectrum of interpretation, allowing the development of a different conversation about the community.

@ValentinahNeri @Mosaico_Festival @DueLabGallery @MattiaStompo @Carmelo.Stompo.

CRONACHE exhibition by Alex Majoli opens tonight in Modica, Italy at 7PM at Ex Convento del Carmine. Open until October 15th.
ALEX MAJOLI, IL TESTIMONE

Alex Majoli’s works represent men, women, children, old people photographed on various continents, in various countries, over the last thirty years. At the same time, they depict suffering, pandemics, pain, walls, borders, the weak, the poor, the marginalised, violence, wars, migration, power, ideologies, faiths, and suffering peoples. This diverse humanity is the protagonist of this Modica exhibition.

The exhibition is presented with a series of tableaux, with some single photos, and then triptychs, polyptychs, ‘photographic’ sequences. Majoli tells stories about wars, police attacks, poverty in the suburbs in the megalopolises of the continents, massacres, loneliness, despair of the entire globe. For him, photography and life are one and the same. He is not the European who looks objectively. His photographic ‘lens’ is the extension of his humanity in participating in the lives of those he meets and with whom he dialogues. His conviction: the theatricality of existence in which everyone plays their part. This is supported by Pirandello, his works and in particular “Six Characters in Search of an Author”. But he also thinks and reflects on Brecht, Artaud and their theatre. And if life is a stage, he begins to photograph events, people as actors of themselves, intensifying the rendering of faces, gestures, actions. He shoots at any time of day or night, but linguistically, photographically the result is not what we imagine, but what he believes can and should be more communicative, more true than what the eye sees, and than what we normally perceive. His images are of an augmented visual reality, and in recent times a reality put on a stage, with actors standing in for or alongside the protagonists of the stories told.

“Pray for Seaman” exhibition by Francesco Bellina in now open at Ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva, Palermo.

“Pray for Seamen is an artistic research project by Francesco Bellina and Stefano Liberti, curated by Izabela Moren, narrating the situation of the seas, the ports, and the small-scale fisheries in Tunisia, Ghana, and Sicily through encounters with fishermen on the ground.

Although the fishermen of the Sicilian, Tunisian, and Ghanaian coasts are a central component of the local economy and cultural identity, they are all exposed to the same global dynamics. Bellina gives us a diverse panorama of three landscapes by documenting their similar practices and struggles.”

The exhibition is open from 16 June to 24 September 2023

Winner of the 10th Edition of the Italian Council by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Produced by Fondazione Studio Rizoma, the final work will be acquired by the Ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva in Palermo.

@FrancescoBellina

On June 4, 2023, the city of Naples officially celebrated the S.C.C. Naples’ victory in the Italian football championship 2023, an extraordinary event that last occurred with the ‘miracle’ of Diego Armando Maradona 33 years ago. On the very same day, June 4, Luca Santese & Marco P. Valli released Malatì, a photographic newspaper shot in Naples between April 29 and May 4, the week that marked the championship’ certain victory.

Neapolitans’ mad eternal love for their city and football team has not spared the two authors, who, possessed by the same holy Malatì (literal for ‘madness’, and title of a Naples’ TikTok hit song which now became the team’s anthem), try to give it back in this photographic volume rich in icons of the city, its history, and inhabitants. The latter are reinterpreted in a chaotic, extreme, reckless, and fleeing visual play—as a scooter speeding in the night through the neighborhoods’ alleys of Naples.

The cover’s photograph portrays a personalized cake realized for the two authors by a Neapolitan pastry chef; on the back side, the photographic volume ends with the cake’s left-overs surrounding the fragment of a Napaepolitan poem.

Printed in Italy, June 2023
Newsprint paper
25×35 cm / 9,8×13,7 in
40 pages, 50 photos
Rotogravure

All photographs shown in this publication were taken in Naples, Italy.

*the product may vary due to the printing process

A5 double-sided artist notebook.
Each one comes with two different covers shot by Cesura’s photographers, 9 different notebooks to collect.

Softcover, Arena White Smooth 300gr
14,8×21 cm / 5,5×8,3 in
120 pages, Arena Ivory Smooth 90gr
Color Offset
Rounded corners
Printed in Italy, May 2021

Souvenir is a poetry collection divided into five sections.
Souvenir, from French “to come to mind”, evokes the ability to remember in a tangible way: distant thoughts in space and time that come in faces, objects, and places.
Lorenzo Cianchi’s poetic and photographic images, selected by CESURA collective, explore narrative duplicity to convey immediacy.

The five booklets, protected in a slipcase, remind us of the accordion-style folding postcards, that were very popular until a few years ago and can be read individually or as stages of human life. From birth to death, passing through youth and maturity: the childish levity, the preadolescence, the difficulty of deciphering desire, the sense of lack. Poetic words welcome photography; together, they become postcards from emotional places that dwell the human.
Poems on one side and photographs on the other: a eulogy to the anisotropic ways people feel, believing that literature – unlike reality – doesn’t necessarily need an end.
Edited by Boîte Editions and Cesura Publish.

First edition of 120 copies
Printed in Italy, November 2022
ISBN 9788894703818
Texts by Lorenzo Cianchi
Photos by Cesura
Translations by Federica Duani
Design by Valentina Bigaran
53,9 x 38,5 in / 13,7 x 9,8 cm
8 pages each booklet, 40 photos

In February 2014 Andy Rocchelli documented the protests in Kyiv that led to the Ukrainian revolution, also known as the Maidan revolution. Once back at Cesura headquarters, Andy realized a fanzine called Ukraina Revolution, which contains a sequence of photographs taken in those days in Maidan Square during the clashes. The fanzine, produced by Cesura Publish in the first edition of 50 copies, was then reprinted in a second edition, also in 2014.
Ukraina Revolution III, in its third edition, returns with a revised and expanded sequence of images.

We dedicate this third edition of Ukraina Revolution to our friends Andy Rocchelli and Andrei Mironov, who were killed by the Ukrainian army on May 24th, 2014, in Sloviansk while documenting the conditions of civilians trapped in the middle of the Donbas conflict.

This is a project promoted and supported by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.

Handbound softcover 27,0 X 41,0 cm
42 pages, 21 photos Digital print
Printed in Italy, May 2022

Arianna Arcara and Claudio Majorana are part of the collective exhibition Coming of age at Fondation Louis Vuitton in honour of Virgil Abloh.
The exhibition will be open from today until April 27th.

“In 2019, Virgil Abloh curated a group exhibition titled “Coming of Age” in Los Angeles, California. Presented in creative partnership with Little Big Man Gallery, the exhibition centred around the concept, diversities and complexities of male youth and boyhood – traversing class, race, social economics, subcultures, isolation, and camaraderie. “Coming of Age” travelled to Paris, Beijing, Milan, New York, Munich, Tokyo and Seoul, allowing students, artists, and local communities access to a DIY “copy center”, to build and create their own zines with their favourite artworks from the exhibition.

A physical embodiment and homage to Virgil Abloh’s world, “Coming of Age” in Paris regroups, reimagines and expands this original exhibition and its narrative story. A tribute to a hands-on creator, the exhibition encourages activities and participation, combining physical events with digital activations. Visitors become participants, alongside artists, photographers, musicians, directors, and animators. Diverse but united, the participants serve as an illustration of Virgil Abloh’s mission and achievement to democratise the dream embodied by Louis Vuitton, rendering it a domain open to the aspirations of people from all walks of life, all ages, all genders and all races.”

Exhibition curated by Be Good Studios.

The jury of the Andy Rocchelli Grant gathered and is pleased to announce that THE YOSHIDA DORMITORY STUDENT’S HISTORY by Kanta Nomura is the winner of the first edition of our Grant.

We are extremely happy with the amount of titles and the high quality of dummies we received, reason why the jury decided to give two special mentions to Mikhail Bushkov with the project Zürich and to Angelo Vignali with the project How to raise a hand.

We want to thank all the participants and the jury for being part of this first edition of the Andy Rocchelli Grant.

2021 Jury
David Campany, Tamara Corm, Arianna Arcara and Lucia Rocchelli.

President of the Jury
Alex Majoli

The first edition of the grant is a project promoted and supported by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo.

“Whatever is the story of my adopted family and of a dream we shared with thousands of kids like us: to live in a world where rules or constrictions didn’t exist.”

“I was a teenager looking for adventures and freedom who found herself in the midst of the declining golden age of the rave movement, with a camera hanging around my neck. At that time, no one saw any good in us or in what we were doing, just as no one even bothered to look into rave culture. I remember the looks filled with disgust and judgment that followed us everywhere, and how we just learned not to give a damn, because we believed in our dreams and the alternative life we were pursuing. Looking back to this project after years, I can’t deny that it was the freest and fullest time of my life; but that fairytale was saturated with asphalt, mud, dust and rich in enemies, and soon our teenage dream crashed into a wall. Surely, we allowed ourselves to be fascinated by the unknown, and learned to find the strength to express all that we are, so that nobody and nothing could stop us from pursuing our dreams, whatever they may be.”

Curated by Arianna Arcara and Alex Majoli
Graphic design by Studio Moretti Visani

Hardback, handmade silver spray*
28×28 cm / 11×11 in
96 pages, 54 photos
Offset
A5 Xerox zine on fluo paper included
First edition

*cover design may vary

Since the day our group came together under the name of CESURA, the people who believed in our project and mission made a huge difference helping us reach our goals. With the SUPPORT US campaign we ask for your help to directly support our projects, our independent Publishing house and our Lab.
You can choose among 3 annual plans with different benefits like a web studio visit of CESURA’s headquarters with one of our members and gadgets (artist notebook with some of our photographers’ pictures on the cover, an original clipper lighter and a cotton tote bag, both with our Never never never give up motto). You can also choose between a signed Open edition print or a 30-minute One to One session to have a chat with a photographer of your choice. Last but not least, a limited edition poster made by the one and only Paolo Ventura!