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Mauro D'Agati

Mauro D’Agati, born in 1968 in Palermo, gained a law degree before beginning working as a professional photographer in 1995. D’Agati specializes in social documentary photography. He has exhibited his work in Italy and abroad and published with Steidl, Ahrens Editions, Contrasto, Charta. In 2018 D’Agati established an independent publishing house 89books.
  • Everything started in 2014 as I was back to Messina after years abroad and felt myself drawn to the part of the city that lies around the central station, a place of frictions and confluences, encounters and combinations, at once a boundary that hides the sea and a passage leading…

  • All these photographs were taken in the Italian psychiatric prisons of Napoli, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Castiglione delle Stiviere, Aversa, in 2001. In the mid-1970s the O.P.G. (Ospedale Psichiatrico Giudiziario) model replaced the old criminal asylums. The Italian Law n. 81 of 2014 set 1 April 2015 as the definitive…

  • The book is a collection of photographs and stories of the protagonists, who due to various reasons and circumstances in their life acquired scars and maks on their bodies.

  • The streets and piazzas of Palermo are never empty and silent. That has always been the case until the severe lockdown provoked by the COVID-19 in spring 2020.

  • The City that No One Has Seen is a collection of 9 walks documented in the medium of photography. The photos were taken in Palermo in the last two weeks of lockdown.

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