For nearly seven years now, Italian photographer Nicola Lo Calzo has documented the multiple lineages and the various manifestations of the memories of colonial slavery, of the resistances to it, of its abolitions. He documents these memories because they create life, because they irrigate our present with wisdom and knowledge of the other that is essential to us. He made his own Edouard Glissant’s affirmation: “To forget is to offend, and memory, when it is shared, abolishes this offense. We need each other’s memory, not for compassion or charity, but for a new lucidity in a process of Relation. And if we want to share the beauty of the world, if we want to be solidary with its suffering, we need to learn how to remember together.”
Tag: Nicola Lo Calzo
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Nicola Lo Calzo, Cham: Memories of a Living Past – The Eye of Photography
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Nicola Lo Calzo – Cham « burn magazine
Nicola Lo Calzo – Cham
Nicola Lo Calzo Cham Culture is a complex thing, especially when it is emergent from centuries of violence, oppression and bondage. The Atlantic slave trade moved millions of bodies and reordered …
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/10/nicola-lo-calzo-cham/
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Casta | The New Yorker
Casta
In these images, from his series “Casta,” Nicola Lo Calzo turns his eye to the American South, a part of the world where custom is in the air
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nicola lo calzo – inside niger
nicola lo calzo – inside niger | burn magazine:
The cultural project ‘Inside Niger’ is a photographic reportage that started after a meeting with the humanitarian association African Pan Project, which is active is Niger since 15 years.
The reportage, committed by Paris city council and Conseil General de Val de Marne, is taking place for one month in the region of Tillaberi and Dosso in the Niger. Its main focus is the population that lives and works on the borders of the Niger River, where most of commercial activities take place such as universities, public work, markets, fishing, slaughter house, vegetable gardens, and tannery.