“We think we’re portraying the world, but what we’re really offering is just our gaze, bundled like a posy, reality broken down into elemental moments, like an inventory”.
This book was born two years ago when I started to create order and organize my own photographic archive from the 2009 to 2024. These pictures were not originally conceived as a book. I have always captured everything around me, trying to documenting my life, friends, travels and daily moments.
Capturing a moment that makes you think of a period in your life, remembering a person or a feeling, has been a way to encapsulate time. Holding it in a tight grip so as not to let it slip away.
This project is not a diary; There’s not a chronological order. After some distance, I formed this narrative, an emotional and wordy dialogue where I connect typical youth situations to something more generic relative to the passing of time and arbitrariness of life.
After review hundred of negatives from almost 15 years, I had been in touch with the Italian photo collective PHMuseum and Lewis Champlin, Loose Joints editor. They helped me with the curating the editing. The text is written by the Spanish writer Rubén Lardín, translated into English.
Viridiana Morandini: Pogo
Text by Rubén Lardín
Design: Kentaro Terajima
152 pages + cover / 17 x 23.5 cm
Viridiana Morandini: Pogo
Publication 2025
International