Charlie Bertsch / 13 Oct 2022
The Illusion of Progress
Red Desert Revisited
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert (1964) is one of the most beautiful films ever made about ugliness.(...)
Italia
Joel Schalit / 27 Nov 2019
Everyday Politics in Italy
The Logic of Exclusion
The kid was being followed. Walking up and down the aisles, speaking loudly on his iPhone in English, he was having trouble finding something he'd been sent to purchase.(...)
Joel Schalit / 30 Sep 2019
Diversity is Everywhere
On Photographing Minorities
"You're giving the wrong impression of Berlin," the email read. "It's in Germany, not Iraq." So read the umpteenth message I'd received that day from readers of Reddit Berlin, one of the most highly used social media forums about the city, in English. It was one of the kinder notes I received.(...)
Joel Schalit / 26 Jan 2019
Turin for Migrants
Multicultural Italy
From Palermo to Turin, to outsiders, Italy resembles a typically multicultural, globalised nation-state. Difficulty in understanding that has more to do with politics than it does with actually existing Italy.(...)