9 June │ Book Launch: Immagini infestate. Ecologie tossiche della fotografia – Sara Benaglia

Book Launch (IT): Immagini infestate. Ecologie tossiche della fotografia
9.06. 2026, 18:00
With Sara Benaglia
Moderated by Stefano Riba
In collaboration with Analogue Photo Festival, Lumen Museum

The book Immagini infestate. Ecologie tossiche della fotografia reflects on photography as a medium that is anything but neutral: since its origins, it has been tied to dynamics of power, exploitation, and control. Photography is not only a tool for representing the world, but also a technology that consumes, classifies, and transforms reality, based on material processes involving resources, labor, and extraction, as in the case of silver and its mining origins.

Through a path that moves from analog photography to digital and artificially generated images, the book analyzes how the role of images has changed over time, leading to today’s overabundance and loss of meaning.

The narrative begins with a concrete and unexpected element: the presence of organic material that has formed on old photographs. These alterations become a starting point for reflecting on the materiality of images, on what endures over time, and on how it is still possible to resist the consumerist logic that dominates them.

In this sense, the book proposes viewing photography not only as an image, but as a physical and fragile object—made of matter, chemistry, and residues—capable of preserving traces, memory, and resistance.

Location: Foto Forum
Language: Italian