BEHIND A LENS IN FRONT THE HAWZA

The Hawza is an educational institution for those Shi’i Muslim believers who wish to improve their knowledge of religious sciences. Beside religious mastery, students are trained to take up religious leadership for the community.

This is my current PhD case study, part of a British Academy project too. The here presented editing is the exhibition that will travel the UK in 2012.

Scattered among the very few buildings dictator Enver Hoxha did not destroy, dervish Mikel and dervish Abdulmuttalib fight to preserve the traditions of a unique community of Muslim mystics, the Bektashis.

Reappearances refers to something that re-emerges and re-gains visibility after a long period of absence. It is not an approach to Reality, but it reports a self contained, intimate and subjective sentiment of space and landscape. An assignment for UNESCO.

Shadows and Dreams through the 798, i.e.: the Beijing's Art District. People, spaces, smells around the area where artists gather to share the common experience of discussing Art and produce it...

Shanghai's state of art underground system of transportation.

Xu Jinglei started as a model, then turned her focus on cinema first as actress and then as director and during a bored afternoon in October 2005 decided to open a blog. By June 2007 she became the most read blogger in the world. And only 32...

8.8.8 or 8th of August 2008: the beginning of the Chinese Olympic Games. How did China deal with the athletes' preparation? If you missed the July 2007 pubblication on Sport Week, here Beijing and Shanghai's Sport Universities.

A Sign of Grace is the assignment I received from the Centro Trevi on the Chinese traditions of calligraphy, street-food and acupunture.

It was part of a comprehensive series of events on China in Bolzano (Italy).

My first exhibition from an essay on the Iraqi community of refugees in Iran.

While working on behalf of IOM to assist the first election for the Iraqi after 1968, I have been exploring details of their daily life in the winter of 2005.