It speaks of love and loneliness, of life and death, of pain and joy, but above all of intimacy and resistance. It is “Silence is a gift”, the book by photographer Ciro Battiloro which will be presented at Magazzini photographic on Thursday 27 June 2024 at 6.30 pm.
Rione Sanità (Naples), Santa Lucia (Cosenza), Torre del Greco. There are places in Southern Italy that bear the scars of incurable wounds on the walls and on the flesh of their inhabitants. In those wounds the historical memory and the real face of the human being are preserved. Their names are Alfonso, Elena, Marco, Stefania, to name a few.
Some come from the same neighborhoods and know each other, others don’t. But they have one thing in common: they all met Ciro Battiloro, who followed them in the privacy of their home with his camera and with his heart. He portrayed their daily life taking part in it. Never an intruder, Ciro Battiloro is a friend, a brother and a confidant. He doesn’t focus so much on marginality, but rather on extraordinary vitality. He saw new lives born, children become teenagers and then parents themselves. He also had to say goodbye. Silence is a Gift talks about love and loneliness, life and death, pain and joy, but above all about intimacy and resistance.
Ciro Battiloro (Torre del Greco, 1984) is an Italian photographer based in Naples. He studied philosophy at the “Federico II” University. He uses a very intimate approach and through daily life addresses broader social issues and works on long-term projects. In particular, his research in recent years has focused on some urban marginalities in Southern Italy. In 2015 he was selected for the second edition of the LAB, Laboratorio Irregolare created by Antonio Biasiucci, and for the artistic residencies: Bocs Art, Up-Urban People, Tremplin Jeunes talent. His works have been published in several magazines and exhibited in several museums/galleries and festivals.
His book Silence is a Gift was published by Chose Commune, a Marseille publishing house directed by Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi and founded in 2014 by Cecile and Vasantha Yogananthan. She specializes in artists’ books with a particular focus on photography.
