CARRARA – On the occasion of the last days of the opening of Uliano Lucas’ exhibition “Other voices, other places”, ongoing until Sunday 5 May at the CARMI Museo Carrara and Michelangelo, the presentation of the photographic volume is scheduled for Saturday 4 May at 6.00 pm by Uliano Lucas with Tatiana Agliani “A slow pace in reality” (Mimesis 2024). Uliano Lucas will dialogue with the Archivi della Resistenza collective (curator of the exhibition, moderated by Alessio Giannanti.
Starting from an anthology of his shots, Lucas recalls firsthand encounters, choices, moments of his life, bringing to the surface both the ideals and contradictions of a season of photojournalism, and the political events and socio-anthropological changes that have marked fifty years of history. From the years of training in the Brera environment to the days spent in Sarajevo under siege, through meetings with the protagonists of the Italian intellectual avant-garde and trips to Africa during decolonization, A slow pace in reality is an opportunity to reflect on the capabilities of story, dialogue and testimony of photography and on the transformations of photojournalism from the era of rotogravure to the advent of digital
Saturday for the presentation of the book and Sunday, the first of the month, entry to the museum is free. For information you can contact CARMI on 3351047450, email [email protected]
The exhibition is promoted by the Municipality of Carrara and curated by the Archives of the Resistance association with the patronage of the Tuscany Region, the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, the Audiovisual Museum of the Resistance of Fosdinovo and ISRA – Historical Institute of the Apuan Resistance.
Uliano Lucas (Milan, 1942) is one of the most important authors of Italian social photography who has documented social, political and cultural changes throughout the world for more than sixty years. He has created reportages with social and anthropological investigations on cities, on the hinterlands and on the varied humanity that inhabits them, on student and worker protests; on Africa with decolonization and the wars of liberation; on total institutions (asylums, barracks and prisons), on the life of emigrants in Europe, on war (Sarajevo, Lebanon, Palestine, Eritrea), on the world of work, on changes in customs and in the territorial and social fabric. Lucas has always combined his activity as a photojournalist with intense study and research on photography and the communication system; in 2015 he wrote a history of Italian photojournalism with Tatiana Agliani.
