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THE BEST BOOKS OF 2009
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Marco Delogu
Lesley A. Martin
George Slade
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Melanie McWhorter
Alec Soth
Daniel Espeset
Ron Jude & Danielle Mericle
Douglas Stockdale
Tricia Gabriel
Jeff Mermelstein
Ed Templeton
Richard Gordon
Eric Miles
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John Gossage
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Martin Parr
Erik van der Weijde
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Andrew Phelps
Michael Wolf
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Markus Schaden
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Libero.
Photographs by Petra Stavast.
Roma.

Just like a mystery that slowly unfolds to eventually reveal the truth of the matter, Stavast’s project intertwines the reader in a collection of images to reconstruct a absorbing story about Italy, migration, Libero and his family. Coming across an abandoned house in Calabria (Italy) the photographer found a collection of old photographs and letters and started to search for the people in these pictures in order to re-tell the story behind the images. The result of her enterprise is delivered through this collection of found photographs taken by different family members, correspondence and recent images by Stavast herself – all presented in a special paper packaging.

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