At Mo.Ca. in Brescia, the rediscovered archive of photographer-reporter Nicola Sansone

From June 3 to July 16, 2023, Mo.Ca. - Center for New Cultures in Brescia presents Nicola Sansone. The rediscovered archive, curated by Renato Corsini: this is a solo exhibition of Nicola Sansone (1921-1984), an educated and socially engaged photographer and reporter of the Roman cohort who, starting in the 1950s, together with other protagonists, marked a season of great cultural ferment in the field of Italian photojournalism.

With Caius Mario Garrubba, Antonio Sansone, Calogero Cascio and Franco Pinna, Sansone founded the Realphoto agency, which produced services for the national and international press for a long time. In the middle of the last century, they became interpreters of a new way of doing journalism that, as Uliano Lucas says, “casts its gaze beyond the usual ways of using photography in the Italian press of the time and discovers the language of images as a tool of denunciation and freedom, of rupture and independence.”

The exhibition presents 120 images taken between the 1950s and the late 1960s, the result of his travels to America, Africa, Japan, Turkey, Thailand, Germany and Italy, from the photographer’s personal archive, guarded for decades by his daughter Lea. This heritage has come back to light in 2020, when Renato Corsini comes into contact with it by organizing and interpreting it to propose, through the realization of the exhibition and the publication of its catalog, the completeness along with the artistic and historical value of his work.

The exhibition is one of the initiatives of the 6th edition of the Brescia Photo Festival, promoted by the Municipality of Brescia and Fondazione Brescia Musei, in collaboration with Ma.Co.f - Centro della Fotografia Italiana, with the artistic curatorship of Renato Corsini, which proposes a series of initiatives set up in the city’s most prestigious exhibition venues that, in the year of Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023, revolves around the theme Capital, and the areas ofaction areas on which the program is built; in particular, culture as care, which reinterprets the local solidarity tradition; the nature city, to redesign relations with a view to sustainable coexistence; and the city of hidden treasures, to rethink the relationship with the existing heritage.

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Image: Nicola Sansone, Naples (1956)

At Mo.Ca. in Brescia, the rediscovered archive of photographer-reporter Nicola Sansone

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