Lorenzo Castore - Glitter Blues blow up press

Lorenzo Castore - Glitter Blues blow up pressBlow Up Press 2021 Discover the world of Franchina, Cioccolatina, Lul, Ramona, Brigida, Ornella, Monica the Viking, Fiorella, Rosa, Ambra and Graziella Sicilian transvestites living working in Catanias neighbourhood San Berillo, that has always been the red light district. The girls neighbourhood was set in the city in such a way that it seemed like a separate territory, like an island without the sea around it or a castle without fortifications.

The images depict a variety of everyday materials and situations

In Look at me like you love me

that one is not just walking into the depth of the dark sea

across time

amounting to a vast and celebrated archival collection that spans the length of her career

Between 1971 and 1989

They were already well-known in the GDR

Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America’s iconic yet oft-neglected ‘third coast’

like when I was a child and I used to dress up

during their participation in an international mission in Afghanistan

the Smithsons built what they described as ‘a simple climate house’: two open floors looking over the hills and valleys of Fonthill

factories and homes in the Midlands in order to unveil and study the changing landscape of post-industrialised Britain