A Drop in the Ocean
Sergio Romagnoli
Éditions du LIC
Curated by Alessandro Calabrese and Milo Montelli
Hardcover
106 pages
210 cm x 260 mm
2014
ISBN 9788293341062
The result of many years work, the photographs gathered in A Drop In the Ocean date from the ’70s and ’80s and are but a few of the many thousands taken by the Italian Naturalist Sergio Romagnoli during his all too brief lifetime. The primary interest for the curators, Curated by Alessandro Calabrese and Milo Montelli, this photobook is a collection of photographs taken by the Italian Naturalist Sergio Romagnoli during his brief lifetime. Romagnoli’s images reveal themselves with a tangible purity; comforting companions during the many hours that the curators spent leafing through his archives, photo albums and ephemera.
Seemingly simple yet highly proficient, his photographs demonstrate an acute visual sensitivity, closely connected to factual reality yet powerfully evocative of the viewer’s own experiences; an evocation of journeys, encounters and study aimed at discovering, knowing and understanding. The act of seeing as common denominator. Photographs that could easily be defined as merely amateurish blend into others of a more technical and scientific nature, all driven by an almost obsessive need to document life, especially the plant kingdom. In presenting the relationship between such different approaches – however detached by labile boundaries – the aim of the curators is to give voice to the unconsciously authorial potential lying within the photographer’s body of work. A potential which would otherwise never be brought to light. More than a mere collection of dusty archive photographs, A Drop In The Ocean was conceived, with honour and gratitude, as a creative homage to Sergio Romagnoli’s life and work.
About the Artist
Sergio Romagnoli was a teacher and a naturalist, a seasoned traveller and lover of photography. He was killed at the age of 37, in circumstances never fully explained while in São Tomé and Príncipe with his wife, where he was volunteering for a local orphanage.
About the Publisher
Éditions du LIC is an independent publisher specialising in the creation of provocative contemporary titles by emerging and established avant-garde photographers. Founded in 2012, they operate as a collective bringing together photographers, designers and writers to produce limited edition photobooks.
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Further Reading
(source https://www.fantomprojects.org/sergio-romagnoli-a-drop-in-the-ocean/)
