VITTURI, Lorenzo - A Dalston Anatomy (2014) - AS SIGNED 2ND PRINT RUN!

Personal statement by Italian photographer Lorenzo VITTURI

"Crowds have their own identity. The market is a unique place where you can get to understand the people of Hackney. Everyone together in this place makes it feel special." (Lorenzo VITTURI)

Background information, content

"The work of Lorenzo VITTURI is often found at the intersection of sculpture and photography and his latest project, Dalston Anatomy, saw him spend time in London’s Ridley Road Market taking pictures, making sculptures and creating collages with materials and objects he found amongst the debris of the marketplace. Vitturi’s process is largely concerned with the creation, consumption and preservation of images and studies the cyclical pattern of formation, disappearance and re-emergence. The makeshift sculptures he created mimic the organic and temporary nature of the market, and their documentation is the way in which they endure before diminishing once more. The book is a beautiful object that distils the very spirit of the fair –bound in exquisite Vlisco fabrics in bright patterns that are reminiscent of African markets and accompanied by a poem by Dalston-based poet (enter name here), that layers voices from the market to draw on its disjointed and surreal atmosphere." (© SPBH, 2013)

Book reviews

"In the end, it wasn't 'A Dalston Anatomy' by Lorenzo VITTURI – with its vibrant and kaleidoscopic take on London's Ridley Road Market – that scooped the prestigious 'Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award', but Óscar Monzón's 'Karma'." (© Tim CLARK)

"Artist Lorenzo VITTURI adopts an array of materials and practices to choreograph this vibrantly animated portrait of London’s Ridley Road Market. Discarded debris is transformed into glorious sculptures, playfully sequenced alongside the markets cacophony of characters, in a delightful celebration of rich creativity." (© Tom CLAXTON)
"Formerly a cinema set painter, Lorenzo VITTURI has made a vivid, hyper-coloured love song to London's Ridley Road Market. With pictures and images of the collages and sculptures he made from materials salvaged from the detritus of the market, 'Dalston Anatomy' is a feast for the senses." (© Zing TSJENG)
"Perusing produce at Broadway Market is something of a habitual occupation among a section of the populace, but Ridley Road Market’s British African-Caribbean flavour and carnivalesque scope lends it a markedly different vibe. This market, which began life in 1880, evidently fascinates artist Lorenzo VITTURI, who unites sculpture & photography in his series 'A Dalston Anatomy'. There is an atmosphere of constant raucous industriousness in Ridley Road, and the artworks by VITTURI are comprised of and inspired by items like coconuts and pig’s trotters that he has salvaged from this ever busy street like artefacts from an admired civilisation. He says he is interested in ideas about how socialising in a space can radically transform it. One really has to experience the anatomical installations of these market finds to get a sense – and a scent – of what Lorenzo is intimating here.
Lyrically accompanying the collection will be slam poet, Sam Berkson, known for his successful first book 'Life in Transit', who went to talk to people in the market as part of his research. 'The photography’s more abstract and the words are more documentary, picking up on the rhythms and the life of the market.', says Berkson. This is Ridley Road deconstructed, reconstructed, packed full of colour and spice. It is a celebration of curiosity." (© Tilly STASIUK)

Additional information

One of Alec SOTH's & Martin PARR's 'Top Ten in 2013! - TIME Picks the Best Photobooks of 2013! - Tom CLAXTON's 'A Year in Ten Titles' - Tim CLARK's 'The Best Photo books of 2013 - Yoshikatsu FUJII, Photobook Club Tokyo: '10 of my favorite photobooks 2013' - Bas PETERS's PHOTOBOOKS 2013 - BJP-editor Simon BAINBRIDGE's '10 favourite photobooks of the year' - Under The Best Photobooks 2013 by DAZEDDIGITAL

About Italian photographer, Lorenzo VITTURI

Photo books by as well as with works by Lorenzo VITTURI