Federico Busonero


 Publications


THE LAND THAT REMAINS
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, 2016

Paesaggi interrotti
Text and 40 photographs published in: 
Gianni Resti - Ad Occhi Aperti. 
Nuova Immagine Editrice, Siena, 2012

Sant’Antimo
Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2003

FORESTA  
Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2000

Il Castagno
Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2001

Fiji The Uncharted Sea
European Union and Government of Fiji, 1996


Portfolios

The Chapel of St. Ignatius
14 photographs
Text by the author
Seattle, 2005

Il Castagno
9 photographs
Text by Rodney Grey
Paris, 2002

Colour and Form on the Reef
10 photographs
Text by Rodney Grey
Editions Ottezec, Paris, 1998

Permanent Blue Light  
10 photographs
Poem and drawings by Cozette de Charmoy
Editions Ottezec, Paris, 1997


Writings


Luce sul muro: un dialogo (with Andrea Merli)
Rivista Elephant & Castle: N.9 Prigioni, 2013
Centro Arti Visive, Facoltà di Letterature Straniere e di Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Bergamo

Il dolore dello sguardo
Text published in: 
Andrea Merli - Un Muro non Basta
Edizioni della Meridiana, Firenze, 2010

Visione e interrogazione: un dialogo tra poesia e fotografia
Italian Poetry Review – Plurilingual Journal of Creativity and Criticism, Volume III, 2008
Columbia University, Department of Italian, New York


Collections

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Private collectors worldwide


Exhibitions

Shores (collective)
Lynn White Contemporary Art Gallery, Eastsound, 2014 

The Land That Remains – Photographs from Palestine
Institut Français de Naplouse, Nablus, 2012
Goethe Institute, Ramallah, 2011
Consulat Général de France, Jerusalem, 2011
UNESCO, Paris, 2010

Interrupted Landscapes
Goat Milk Festival, Bela Rechka, 2011

Declinazioni del Paesaggio
Spazio Suoni & Pause, Cagliari, 2010

Look at What They Have Done to Us
6th ECTMIH, Verona. 2009

Passeurs de Nature
Bibliothèque municipale de Tours, 2005

Visual Proofs (collective)
Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, 2004

Where do we go from here?
Benham Gallery, Seattle, 2004

Dalla Terra – Federico Busonero: Fotografie 1998-2002
Istituto Italiano di Cultura and Internationale Photozene
Köln, 2002

Foresta
Centro Culturale San Vitale, Cremona, 2001
Palazzo Chigi, San Quirico d’Orcia (Siena), 2000
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris, 2000

Petits Poèmes Photographiques (collective)
Photographs from the portfolio Colour and Form on the Reef
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 1999
Galerie du Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, 1999

En Lisière Galleria Graphik, Macerata, 1999

Permanent Blue Light (with Cozette de Charmoy and Pierre Kraft) Galerie Terre d’Ombre, Sommières, 1998
 


Review

«L’œuvre de Federico Busonero se concentre autour de trois axes de recherches essentiels: le rapport au temps et le souci de capter les traces de son passage dans l’immobilité même des objets photographiés, la recherche d’une harmonie porteuse de sens entre les couleurs et les formes, enfin, une interrogation sans cesse renouvelée sur les rapports que l’homme établit avec la nature. L’exigence de sa recherche le conduit à pousser toujours plus loin l’observation des lieux dans l’oubli de soi. Dans ses images, pas de métaphore, pas d’utilisation du réel pour un discours forgé de toutes pièces par le photographe, mais un discours photographique entièrement consacré à l’analyse de son soujet, à la perception de sa cohérence.»

- Anne Sanciaud-Azanza                 

 

 

 

Giovanni Fontana Antonelli

Giovanni Fontana Antonelli is an architect and regional planner graduated from Florence University (Italy). Specialized in conservation and management of historic towns and landscapes, he joined UNESCO in 1998 (Namibia, Angola and Mozambique). After one year at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, he served from 2003 to 2013 as a Head of Culture Unit at UNESCO Office in Ramallah, where his upfront action was key to protect Palestinian cultural identity, land and livelihood of local communities through projects that addressed historic preservation, museum development, capacity building, based on an ethical, sustainable, equitable and gender-sensitive development culture.

Among these projects, the advocacy planning for the protection of the agricultural dry-stone terraces and irrigation systems of Battir was awarded the “Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding of Cultural Landscapes” in 2011, and substantially contributed to the inscription of the “Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem-Battir” on the World Heritage list in 2014. The project “Reviving of earthen architecture in the Jordan Valley towards adequate housing for marginalized communities” (funded through the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security) was nominated for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2013 and 2016.

Author of more than sixty papers, articles and book chapters on historic towns, cultural landscapes and cultural management, Giovanni Fontana Antonelli is co-editor of the two-volume publication “Bethlehem Area Conservation and Management Plan” (Paris: 2012) and the photographic book “The Land That Remains” (Berlin: 2016).

Senior consultant in Nigeria, Iraq and Jordan from 2013 through 2015, Giovanni Fontana Antonelli is currently CEO and ‘Just Cities’ Program Director at ARCHI.MEDIA TRUST, a non-profit development and humanitarian agency focusing on human settlements, cultural development, social justice and human rights.