Spanish documentary photographer Carlos Spottornotwo-time winner of the award World Press Photo (2003 and 2015) is being presented this Wednesday in Alicante book Don’t go back to RomeIt was organized by Astiberri and featured an opening ceremony. exposure with the fifteen photographs featured in this issue. It will be held at the Pynchon&Co bookstore.at 7 p.m.Where to talk to the cultural manager Paco Linares About his work for this show.
«The images captured by the spottorno camera are a kind of memory of the Tiber city but also of us They show off their gifts. “It will be difficult for the visitor to determine whether Rome is the graveyard of a lost civilization or the glow of a supernova whose light continues to reach through the contrasts,” explains Linares, recalling that Spottorno had previously published a comic book dating back to 25,000 BC. this publisher, his own photographs and 15 notebooks by correspondent Guillermo Abril about the borders of the European Union, Crack, experience they repeated later Mistake.
Spottorno puts a twist on things photo narration type in this new release, now alone, because images dominate accompanied by small reflections or the author’s thoughts.
The book talks about the contrast between today’s Rome and the Rome of the Italian city where the photographer lived in his youth, where the splendor of the past and the beauty of its ruins coexist with the present. graffiti, litter or tourists’ obsession with selfies.