POGO, Viridiana Morandini

"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 order and organize my own photographic archive from 2009 to 2024. These pictures have not been thought of for being a book. I have always captured everything around me, trying to document my life, friends, travels, and quotidian 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 my 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. From the distance of time, I have created this narration; an emotional and worldly dialogue where I connect typical youth situations to something more generic relative, to the passing of time and arbitrariness of life. 

After reviewing hundred sof 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 and curated the editing. The text is made by the Spanish writer Rubén Lardín, and is also translated to English."

- Words by Viridiana Morandini

Self Published
Softcover, visible spine 
152 pages
170 x 235 mm
ISBN 9788409740642