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Meet Italy’s new generation of gabber and hardcore warriors

Bergamo Hardcore — Photographers GabriTVB and Tchane’s new photo series follows Gen Z revivalists of the subculture and musical style, which broke through the country in the mid-’90s.

  • Music
  • Matthew Burgos
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Grainy, yearning memories of Europe’s ’90s free rave heyday

Never Alone — A new photobook from Cheyenne Clementi and Valentina Morandi presents pictures they made over seven years while touring the continent as part of the Tekno Mobil Squad soundsystem crew. It archives parties, people and a lifestyle largely consigned to the past.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk

Andrea Modica’s 40 year long Italian Story

Storia — The Italian American photographer first ventured to her ancestral country in 1987, beginning a decades long exploration and documentation of it.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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As Italy’s rave culture faces crackdowns, a cyberpunk citadel fights to survive

Mutonia must stay — Having fled the UK in the face of increasingly oppressive Thatcherite laws, a collective of artists and musicians eventually found a home in an abandoned quarry over three decades ago. Now, they may have to move once again.

  • Culture
  • Marco De Vidi

Inside the world’s only inhabited art gallery

The MAAM Metropoliz — Since gaining official acceptance, a former salami factory turned art squat has become a fully-fledged museum. Its existence has provided secure housing to a community who would have struggled to find it otherwise.

  • Art
  • Gaia Neiman

The disappearing world of mountain farmers in the Alps

Photographer Roland Reinstadler discusses his project documenting a farming community from Northern Italy who are fighting to maintain ancestral traditions in an extreme environment.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

‘These days, you don’t hear a sound’

A view from Northern Italy — Photographer Marzio Toniolo documents daily life in Lombardy: the heart of the country’s coronavirus outbreak. After eight weeks of lockdown, has anything changed?

  • Photography
  • Eva Clifford

Letizia Battaglia: the Sicilian woman who shot the mafia

Horror on film — The photographer spent years chronicling the mafia’s brutal reign over Sicily during the last half of the 20th century. 

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

A portrait of adolescence in the Sicilian suburbs

Teenage kicks — After meeting a group of young skaters in his hometown, photographer Claudio Majorana embarked on a six-year project, documenting the group as they grappled with the highs and lows of growing up.

  • Photography
  • Niall Flynn

The Italian football club fighting racism on & off the pitch

Stories From The Sidelines — Afro-Napoli United is a social project set up to integrate refugees and fight racism through football. But in winning success on the pitch, has it compromised the ideals on which it was founded?

  • Outdoors
  • Elliott Goat

Inside the disturbing world of Italy’s exorcists

Deliver us from evil — A new documentary from Federica Di Giacomo explores the mysterious rise of exorcism in the modern world; following the stories of the sufferers and priests.

  • Film
  • Natalie Maria Wardle

Uncovering Italy's radical rollerblading scene

Blades of glory — Photographer Pietro Firrincieli captures the ins and outs of this largely unexplored scene.

  • Zine Scene
  • Biju Belinky

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