Giorgia Meloni vs. Placebo
When Brian Molko, the frontman of the British alternative rock band Placebo, addressed the crowd at Torino’s Sonic Park music festival in the summer of 2023, calling the new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a “racist”, a “fascist,” and a “piece of shit” in Italian, his words were met with hearty applause.(...)
Aperture Priorities Contact Sheet #25
Standing in Piazza Statuto, photographing women position Palestinian flags on the pavement, I realised it had been a year I'd spent documenting such scenes in Torino.(...)
Aperture Priorities Contact Sheet #20
Antisemitism, Postfascism and Israel
Race is the most decisive element of politics, exerting its malign gravity in all areas of political life.(...)
Mussolini’s Grandchildren, by David Broder
Giorgia Meloni’s election win in September 2022 was a watershed moment in history. Coming from Italy’s postfascist right, Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) was the first party to overcome the antifascist nostrums that had been integral to European politics since 1945.(...)