Announcing Imperfetto, The 1st Issue Of PhMuseum's New Printed Annual Magazine

Announcing Imperfetto, The 1st Issue Of PhMuseum's New Printed Annual Magazine Announcing Imperfetto, The 1st Issue Of PhMuseum's New Printed Annual Magazine Announcing Imperfetto, The 1st Issue Of PhMuseum's New Printed Annual Magazine View all images ↓
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The publication brings together the work of 68 artists and 13 contributors, tracing a full year in contemporary photography through long-term projects, collaborations, and activities we love.

The first printed magazine in fourteen years of activities, PhMuseum Annual #01 – Imperfetto is now available for purchase worldwide. Divided in twelve months, it includes portfolios, conversations, exhibitions, curatorial focuses, education, practical toolboxes, and more.

As explained in the intro essay written by the Editor-in-Chief and Artistic Director Giuseppe Oliverio, the title of this first issue, Imperfetto, draws from the Italian word’s double meaning, referring both to a verb tense that describes ongoing actions in the past and to an adjective describing things that are incomplete or deviating from an ideal state of perfection. Both interpretations apply to the content of this publication, featuring long-term projects by photographers exploring contemporary issues from a slow, critical perspective, whose visual essays aim not for completion but to provide a basis for conversation and reflection. Imperfetto also reflects the nature of this printed publication, covering the past 12 months of activities at PhMuseum and crafted after a summer of planning, writing, and designing, which, despite all the effort, might still contain errors or inconsistencies that we embrace.

Twelve months work as chapters structuring images, processes and reflections we encountered this past year, and which we felt the urge to share with you in a physical, lasting form. In January and October you will find eight portfolios we selected from the PhMuseum 2025 Photography Grant and the PhMuseum 2024 Women Photographers Grant: the works of Hashem Shakeri, Aria Shahrokhshahi, Arnau Blanch Vilageliu, Radha Rathi, Sara Abbaspour, Sara De Brito Faustino, Margarita Galandina, and Lidewij Mulder are accompanied by conversations with Danaé Panchaud, Krzysztof Candrowicz, Carolina Semprucci, Lucia De Stefani, Pixy Liao, Giuseppe Oliverio and Camilla Marrese. Exhibitions by Lucija Rosc, Matthieu Croizier, Maximiliano Tineo, Sarah Schneider & Stella Meyer at PhMuseum Lab are presented in February, June and November, analyzed through hands-on curatorial focuses, and in-depth interviews with the artists. A 36-page section in September is dedicated to the 14 exhibitions at PhMuseum Days 2024 by Beatriz de Souza Lima, Kush Kukreja, Matylda Niżegorodcew, David De Beyter, Taysir Batniji, Camilla de Maffei, Tara L.C. Sood, Thomas Mailaender, Utu-Tuuli Jussila, Pacifico Silano, Rita Puig-Serra, Mahalia Taje Giotto, Carolina Pimenta, and Emma Sarpaniemi; while works by Jinyong Lian, Álvaro Muñoz, Alexandra Riba, Aaron Schuman, Alba Ruiz Lafuente, and Ilias Lois are presented in March as part of a billboard public installation realised at VA-M Festival in Ferrara, Italy.

The process behind four works developed within our Online Masterclasses Program – Francisco Canton in FOLIO, Katerina Kouzmitcheva in CURAE, Alina Cristea in MEDIAE, and Polly Tootal in CRITICAE – is shared in May, and commented by tutors Elisa Medde, Laura El-Tantawy, Salvatore Vitale, Erik Kessels and Giuseppe Oliverio. A twenty-page section in July is dedicated to the 32 finalists of the PhMuseum 2025 Photobook Award, while two dedicated interviews deepen in the work of Tipi Bookshop in April and Perimeter Books in August. Four toolboxes throughout the whole publication share practical insights on processes related to photographic work – from applying to open calls to experimenting with bookbinding, while an advertorial developed with MPB, Europe's top camera reseller offers an homage to technicality and the cultural significance of cameras.

Imperfetto is the result of extensive collaboration. Conceived and designed in-house at PhMuseum Lab in Bologna, Italy, the magazine employs typefaces selected from ECAL Typefaces, a platform highlighting the type design work of students at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. It features illustrations designed in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Its four papers were kindly provided by Cartiere del Garda, Italy. The volume was printed and bound at Grafiche Antiga in Treviso, Italy, in September 2025. It is independently distributed by PhMuseum, and now ready to reach our community. Thanks for your support and for being part of this journey.

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Editor-in-chief: Giuseppe Oliverio
Editor: Camilla Marrese
Art Director: Giuseppe Oliverio
Graphic Designer: Camilla Marrese, Giuseppe Oliverio, Susanna Tomassini
Illustrator: Susanna Tomassini
Technical director: Alex McFarlane
Production Assistant: Rosa Lacavalla

Published in: 2025
Size: 230 x 280 mm
Pages: 292
Limited Edition: 750 copies
Printed in: Italy by Grafiche Antiga
Papers: GardaMatt Rough, Coral Book Natural, Coral Book White, Garda Recycled Print gently provided by Cartiere del Garda
Typefaces: Kolonia, Review Mono, Parabole, Krimi, Mobil, Arkbro by ECAL Typefaces, Seagal by Giovanni Murolo
ISBN: 9788894686685

Contributing artists: Aaron Schuman, Alejandro “Luperca” Morales, Alexandra Riba, Alina Cristea, Alba Ruiz Lafuente, Álvaro Muñoz, Akanksha Pandey, Aria Shahrokhshahi, Arnau Blanch Vilageliu, Beatriz de Souza Lima, Camilla de Maffei, Carolina Pimenta, Cédrine Scheidig, Claire Cocano, Claudia Jaguaribe, Czepiel Maciej, Davide Sartori, David De Beyter, Dragan Saric, Edgar Martins, Emma Sarpaniemi, Federico Possati, Francisco Canton, Fujimura Family, Gal Cipreste & Masina Pinheiro, Greta Valente, Hashem Shakeri, Ilias Lois, Jan A. Staiger, Jason Hendardy, Jinyong Lian, Justin Maxon, Kate Schultze, Katerina Kouzmitcheva, Kush Kukreja, Leonardo Magrelli, Lidewij Mulder, Lucija Rosc, Mahalia Taje Giotto, Marcel Top, Margarita Galandina, Matylda Niżegorodcew, Matthieu Croizier, Maximiliano Tineo, Najhmi Cartagena, Pacifico Silano, Polly Tootal, Radha Rathi, Rita Puig-Serra, Sara Abbaspour, Sara De Brito Faustino, Sarah Schneider, Serena Radicioli, Stella Meyer, Steven Natusch, Sushant, Tara L.C.Sood, Taysir Batniji, Thero Makepe, Thomas Mailaender, Tim Gassauer, Utu-Tuuli Jussila, Xuechun Wang, Yuchen Wang, Yuan Lin.

Contributing writers: Camilla Marrese, Carolina Semprucci, Danaé Panchaud, Elisa Medde, Erik Kessels, Giuseppe Oliverio, Krzysztof Candrowicz, Laura El-Tantawy, Lucia De Stefani, Pixy Liao, Salvatore Vitale.

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PhMuseum Annual #01 – Imperfetto is now available for purchase worldwide on our shop. If you are a bookshop interested in distributing it further, please drop us a line at info@phmuseum.com