South Africa, young College student girls in their school break// Taken from the exhibition ‘Sony World Photography Awards 2023’, one of the most prestigious competitions in the world for contemporary photography (Milan, ‘Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini’ July 3 – September 3, 2023). The free contest allows photographers from all the world to find support for their talent : in the four competitions of 2023 edition - Professional, Open, Student, Youth – more than 415.000 images participated from over 200 countries and territories.

The ‘fog nets’ are a project started in Perù almost twenty years ago from an artisanal method which uses the condensation from climatic fogs to integrate water harvesting in the city of Lima, among the most affected in the world by drought.

A friend psychology[1], like the one which healed one’s ousting – removal of the principle of pleasure – is at last able to catch the fogs that others cast on ‘I’, and liquefy them into providential water for one’s mill.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio - September 10, 2023

[1] “It’s the capacity inherent in a first citizenship, whose relationships don’t expect protection from the rules of a second citizenship, commonly known as the right of the State…”, ‘Il pensiero di natura. Dalla psicoanalisi al pensiero giuridico’, Giacomo B. Contri – SIC Edizioni (1998), pg. 26