Camilla Marrese
Photographer
Bio
Camilla Marrese (1998) is an italian photographer and designer.
Role
PhMuseum Visual Editor, Graphic Designer and Photographer
Nationality
Italian
Photobook Review: Toos & Tiny By Jaap Scheeren
A 17 x 20 cm monument that you will flip in your hands, Toos & Tiny | My Mother’s Mother and My Father’s Father is a concise ode to legacy, to the bloodlines that have shaped us, and to our lifetime mission of holding fragments of time together.
PhMuseum 2025 Photobook Award Exhibition
A jury composed of Max Pinckers, Yumi Goto, Karla Hiraldo-Voleau, Giuseppe Oliverio, and Camilla Marrese selected 30 projects and dummies from the open call for a dedicated display at Serra Madre.
Dummies And Books From FOLIO 2024/25
The exhibition presents the photobook prototypes developed during the fifth edition of FOLIO - PhMuseum Online Masterclass On Photobook.
Photobook Review: Cursed By Charlie Engman
Referencing the online trend of “cursed images”, Engman’s work asks us to view AI-generated pictures as images in their own right: what are they capable of expressing, and what are they trying to say about the world?
Photobook Review: St. Gil By Jonathan Schmidt-Ott
An ode to the lack of photographic intention, a tribute to the viewer's imagination and interpretative power, St.Gil is a book of visual riddles set in a seemingly never-ending summer afternoon.
Photobook Review: All Things Laid Dormant By Benedetta Casagrande
Published by Skinnerboox, Casagrande’s first book is a poetic visual essay on love and longing within environmental loss, extinction and ruination.
Photobook Review: Down The Jade Mountain By Ivo Sekulovski
Somewhere in between surrealism and a coming-of-age, unsettling novel from another world, Down The Jade Mountain reckons with a home, Macedonia, and the constant negotiations of its restless identity.
Photobook Review: The Last Safe Abortion By Carmen Winant
An account of abortion care labor’s visual culture, Carmen Winant’s latest book is an un-photographic, simultaneous archive living in the present tense.
Everything Precious Is Fragile: Interview With Azu Nwagbogu, Curator Of The First Benin Pavilion At The Venice Biennale
Bringing together Ishola Akpo, Romuald Hazoumè, Moufouli Bello and Chloé Quenum's works, Everything Precious Is Fragile embodies the unfinished and the suspended, the vulnerable and the incomplete to express a story of post-colonial restoration.
Photobook Review: State Of Emergency By Max Pinckers Et Al.
10 years in the making, State of Emergency is a collaboration with Mau Mau war veterans in Kenya that comes to fill the deliberate holes in British colonial history, and materialize new records of a long, misrepresented fight for independence.
Photobook Review: Bannkörbe By Aladin Borioli
Indexing a rare, ancient type of beehive, Bannkörbe is an other-worldly visual atlas blurring the lines between fields of knowledge. What can documentary art learn from ethnography, science from magic, architecture from bees, and the other way around?
Of Affection Within Critique: Interview With Nadine Wietlisbach
A Show of Affection - Collection Constellation 1 is the first of a series of exhibitions inquiring into Fotomuseum Winterthur’s collection. Its director reflects on what it means to collect photography, and to try to preserve its meaning through time.
Photobook Review: My Grandfather Turned Into A Tiger... And Other Illusions By Pao Houa Her
Somewhere between Laos, Minnesota and Northern California, Pao Houa Her’s work shapes a mythology of diaspora and displacement, with plastic landscapes coming to life and waterfalls turning into static backdrops.
Photobook Review: Nucleo By Wouter Van De Voorde
Published by Area Books, Nucleo is a time capsule that carries us through vastness, an ode to life in a house with no ceiling and no walls.
Photobook Review: Another Love Story By Karla Hiraldo Voleau
Another Love Story looks at the pictures we take without thinking and shows them for what they really are. It slips inside them, it dissects them, to then stage a lie that feels truer than reality.
Photobook Review: Tender By Carla Williams
In TBW’s latest publication, the rediscovery of Carla Williams' archive of self-portraits is about the need to take pictures you've never seen before in your life. And about one belief: that nothing should ever bother us in a photograph of our body.
Photobook Review: Better In The Dark Than His Rider By Francesco Merlini
Published with Départ Pour l’Image, Merlini’s latest book works as dreams do, and makes you question what design in photography can be.
On The Pleasure Of Words, And Curatorial Irreverence: An Interview With Federica Chiocchetti
Started out with the exhibition "Le Plaisir du Texte", Federica Chiocchetti’s journey as the museum director of MBAL, Switzerland is one of contamination, generosity, and productive obsessions.
Photobook Review: Mystery Street By Vasantha Yogananthan
Located somewhere in-between New Orleans and an imaginary playground, Mystery Street is a lyrical exploration of childhood and endless summer days, marking a turning point in Yogananthan's photographic negotiation with reality.
Photobook Review: Dialect By Felipe Romero Beltrán
How can the embodied, violent power of a legal document be materialized? Observing three years of forced waiting as lived by a group of Moroccan migrants, "Dialect" is a book subverting bureaucracy while slipping through the nets of its codified language.
The Error's Possibilities: Luca Santese's Exhibition Mutter Opens In Berlin
The Italian documentary photographer, founder and active member of the Cesura collective, inaugurates on Friday 9 June, his solo exhibition in Jergon, an art hub in Berlin.
Photobook Review: The Heart Is A Sandwich By Jason Fulford
A sculpture made from bread, Aldo Rossi's autobiography, and an old persimmon farm are some of the encounters Jason Fulford's new book is about. First started as a dream on an airplane, the book is a collection of short stories and a tribute to Italy.
Abzgram Doesn't Mean Anything: Karolina Wojtas' Critique Of The Polish School System
Abzgram is an object breaking any possible rule, where the nonsensical and the excessive are productive tools of criticism and rebellion.
Hicham Gardaf On The Disappearance Of Tangier's Bleach Sellers
In Praise of Slowness is an ode to disappearance. Looking at the vanishing of a traditional job, Gardaf reflects on its disruptive power over capitalism.