Vittorio Veneto, Gabriele Galimberti's Ameriguns on display at Palazzo Todesco.

In Vittorio Veneto, Palazzo Todesco confirms its vocation as a container for photographic exhibitions by hosting in its halls the Ameriguns exhibition dedicated to Gabriele Galimberti, a Tuscan author of international prominence in the field of photojournalism and documentary photography. A multiple award-winner for his images, he has exhibited worldwide and worked over the years for international magazines and newspapers such as National Geographic, Sunday Times, Le Monde, Stern, and La Repubblica.

With The Ameriguns, featured in the exhibition, the photographer won, in the Portraits section, the World Press Photo 2021, the world’s most prestigious photojournalism competition. This project chronicles the American passion for firearms through iconic images in which quiet or smiling citizens pose with their private collections in ordinary living rooms, quiet country homes, or luxurious mansions. These portraits are hyperrealist in tone because of their environmental contextualization and careful attention to the arrangement of objects that create an effect of texture and pattern. The result is alienating compared to classic journalistic-type photography. In Galimberti, the perfection of framing and the fixity of the image sublimate the drama of culture from guns, which cuts across the different strata of society in the United States, through the aesthetic perfection of a studied composition. A stylistic formula that has become recognizable and highly personal signature. His research is not limited to identifying themes and subjects but wants to go to the understanding of the general phenomenon because photography has the power to reveal the truth with the power of visual data.

Also on display at Palazzo Todesco is Toy Stories, a series of images that take on the characteristics of a short collective novel made up of stories of children framed within intimate spaces of life, such as their bedrooms, often a refuge from the incomprehensible reality of adults.

This photographic project led Galimberti to visit, for over a year, more than fifty countries around the world, from Texas toIndia, from Malawi to China, from Morocco to Fiji, recording the same spontaneous and natural joy of children in showing off their toys. Whether it is a real fleet of cars or a simple stuffed monkey, teddy bears or trucks, dolls, dinosaurs or miniature toy soldiers these photographs capture the same pride, self-conscious or disarming in showing off their treasure, of children who yet live in very different socio-economic realities.

The In Her Kitchen project also uses the same modes of communication. The photographer makes a fascinating journey around the world by entering the intimacy of the home, but this time he combines the portraits with shots of the kitchens and typical dishes that are prepared in those environments. In the Home Pharma series, on the other hand, he emphasizes the contrast between the quantity and quality of medicines found in the homes of those who live in megacities or in villages, thus emphasizing the same anxiety and fear that humans feel when faced with pain and death.

An exhibition that also includes other sections of a multimedia nature and proves to be a compelling social and anthropological exploration to discover the peculiarities and differences, the stories and contradictions. Gabriele Galimberti describes a world with complex dynamics, characterized by deep injustices and irremediable diversities but also by common problems, shared emotions and feelings that make all human beings similar.

Gabriele Galimberti is an Italian photographer who often lives on airplanes, and occasionally in Val di Chiana(Tuscany), where he grew up. In recent years he has been working on long-term photo documentary projects, some of which have since become books, such as Toy Stories, In Her Kitchen, My Couch Is Your Couch, The Heavens and The Ameriguns. Galimberti’s work consists of telling the stories of people from around the world through portraits and narratives of their peculiarities and differences, as well as through the things the photographed subjects surround themselves with and take pride in. Social media, in all its forms, is a key part of the research needed to connect with these people and discover and produce these stories. After his beginnings as a commercial photographer, Galimberti then turned to documentary photography by joining the art collective Riverboom, best known for his work entitled Switzerland Versus The World, which has been successfully exhibited at festivals, magazines and art shows around the world. Galimberti is currently working on both personal and shared projects, as well as assignments for international magazines and newspapers including National Geographic, The Sunday, Times, Stern, Geo, Le Monde, La Repubblica and Marie Claire. His images are shown in international exhibitions, such as the well-known Festival Images in Vevey, Switzerland, Le Rencontres de la Photographie(Arles) and the renowned V&A museum in London. Galimberti won World Press Photo 2021 in the Portrait Stories category with his project The Ameriguns.

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Pictured: shot from The Ameriguns series.

Vittorio Veneto, Gabriele Galimberti's Ameriguns on display at Palazzo Todesco.

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