On 7th of June 2020 photographer Luca Santese photographed the Black Lives MatterIt's demonstrations which took place in Milan in front of the Central Station: a follow up of the anger that has spread worldwide after George Floyd 'S death, on May 25th in Minneapolis.
Along with many other cities all over Italy, thousands of people took part in Milan's peaceful demonstrations which then became a march under the rain in the name of Floyd's "I can breathe" slogan.
BioLuca Santese (1985) studied at Monza's Art institute and at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan. While attending the academy he worked like assistant in Alex Majoli's studio and in 2008 he founded the collective Cesura: an independent group of photographers aimed at creating photojournalism, documentary and artistic research projects. In 2009 he was selected by Photolucida Critical Mass as a new talent. In 2010 he was selected by the World Press Photo prize with the project Detroit 2009-2010 and in the same year he exhibited for the first time the project Found Photos in Detroit at Le Bal Space in Paris, to which followed exhibitions at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm, at the OGR in Turin and at the MoCP in Chicago and numerous further international exhibitions. In 2012 he published the Found Photos in Detroit book with Arianna Arcara. The book has collected seven nominations as the best photographic book of the year and was selected by Martin Parr and Garry Badger for the series: Photobook: A History Vol III, which collects the 200 best books after the second world war. The curatorial experience of Found Photos in Detroit continued in the Italy & Italy project, a book that collects a selection of images of the city of Rimini in the 90s: the breakdown of the Berlusconi's Italy in its maximum worldly fulfillment. Today Santese's work is concentrated in the production of research photography. He continues to deal with experimental documentary photography as in the recent projects Realpolitik and Festa. Santese's work has been published and exhibited in Europe, Russia and the United States.
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Photographer Luca Santese photographed the Black Lives Matter event held on June 7, 2020, in Milan in Piazza Duca d'Aosta, Central Station.
Italy also gives voice to deep disdain caused by the death of George Floyd occurred on May 25 in Minneapolis by the hand of a policeman.
Thousands of people also in Milan, among the many squares in Italy, took part in the march against US law enforcement violence against minorities.
The peaceful garrison under the banner of " I can't breathe "Then turned into a march in the rain.
BioLuca Santese (Milan, 1985) is an Italian photographer.
He studied at the State Art Institute of Monza and at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. In 2008 he founded the collective Cesura: an independent group of photographers united in Nintendo to produce photo-journalism, documentary and research projects. In 2009 he was selected by Photolucida Critical Mass as a new talent. In 2010 he was selected by the World Press Photo award with the Detroit project 2009-2010 and in the same year he exhibited for the first time the Found Photos project in Detroit at Le Bal Space in Paris which was followed by exhibitions at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm, at the OGR in Turin and at the MoCP in Chicago as well as numerous subsequent international exhibitions. In 2011 he published the book Found Photos in Detroit with Arianna Arcara which collected seven nominations for the best photo book of the year and was selected by Martin Parr and Garry Badger for the series: Photobook: A History Vol III, which collects the best 200 photo books after the Second World War. The curatorial experience of Found Photos in Detroit continued in the Italy & Italy project, a photographic book that collects a selection of images of the city of Rimini from the 90s: an insight into Berlusconi's Italy in its greatest social realization. Today Santese's work is concentrated in the production of research photography as in the "Festa" project. He also continues to deal with experimental documentary photography as in the recent Realpolitik project.
lucasantese.com
@ luca.santese
