Photography is one of the few mediums that truly allows us to capture everyday life. Our joyful days as well as the most mundane passing of time, without embellishment and with spontaneity. The ten or so photographers participating in the Documentary project have, without coordinating, set out to document the beauty of the trivial and the ordinary. They elevate the intertwining of our lives, our habits, fleeting moments, and what often goes unnoticed. These photographic subjects carry a more cerebral, sometimes abstract, aesthetic value. Their precious perspective adds a poetic touch to the most insignificant object—yet one that connects us all, deeply and intimately.
13 photographes, 43 photographies
Robbie McIntosh
Robbie McIntosh, an Italian photographer based in Naples, discovered photography during his teenage years and has never "looked back" since. His motto: "enjoy life and take it as it comes." He specializes in photographing Sunday beachgoers on the beaches of Naples, celebrating the human body in its simplicity, far from the flawless bodies of models. His style, inspired by Martin Parr, highlights ordinary bodies with their wrinkles and imperfections. Highly followed on Instagram, he has won several awards, including the Fokus Awards 2023 in the main category and an honorable mention at the Corigliano Calabro Photography Festival 2023.
Christopher Anderson
Christopher Anderson is one of the most published and awarded photographers of his generation. A member of Magnum Photos from 2005 to 2023, he regularly collaborates with The New York Times, The New Yorker, and New York Magazine, particularly for his reporting in conflict zones.
In 2000, his photo report on the journey of 44 Haitian migrants earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal and marked a turning point in his work, which has since carried great emotional intensity. In 2008, the birth of his first child transformed his perspective: he left war zones to focus on the intimate, creating an emblematic photographic trilogy (Son, Pia, Marion). Now a French citizen, he continues his work between portraiture, fashion, and documentary, with a distinctly personal approach.
August Arena
Passionate about photography since his teenage years, August Arena received his first film camera at the age of seventeen. Through his lens, he captures fleeting moments, striving to preserve the emotions and memories that slip through the fingers of time.
He adopts the stance of an observer, sharing his point of view, as his gaze lingers on shapes and symmetries. Tinged with nostalgia, his style is expressed mainly through street photography, where he plays with lines and shadows in search of visual harmony. Landscape, urban scene, or still life — his images, bathed in softness, seem suspended between reality and memory, like a dream barely awakened.
Guillaume Lavrut
Since a young age, Guillaume Lavrut has nurtured a passion for drawing, which naturally led him to pursue art studies.
Currently an art director at an agency specializing in luxury, he has been exploring the possibilities offered by photography for many years. Every light, shape, and color is a potential subject for him, turning the everyday into a visual playground.
