Il MalocchioAccording to old pagan beliefs Il Malocchio or the evil eye is a curse causing bad luck and misfortune. In his debut book Il Malocchio Italian photographer Andrea Simonato depicts the quiet villages of his home region of Vicenza in the Northern Italy as upon this curse of unluckiness causing decay and abandonment. On his walks through sleeping villages and their empty buildings, dark woods and resting groves Simonato makes extraordinary findings in

I knew what I was trying to do

this is about the eyes at the end of the road

to create scenes of American life and landscape

During the trip

a black concrete moon

’Larry Towell photographed the Old Colony Mennonites in rural Ontario and Mexico between 1990 and 1999

It interrogates history but receives only demure shrugs in response

the noted American photographer's first book

These photographs were made between 1979–1985 in a pre-digital

though the woman she depicts is an archetype

1975) juxtaposes them with her photographs and prose rewritten from interviews and historical records

He would spend this time recording the cityscape