Two Italian Rascals #1

Two Italian Rascals is a bi-annual publication by Vincenzo Elifani and edited by Skye Darukhanavala. 

In 2022, paper seems to have become a luxury. So why start a printed magazine?

We live in an overly digitalized world where images have been commoditized at the expense of dismissing the effort that goes on behind crafting a visual work.

We fall prey to an endless, detrimental scrolling that leaves little space for conscious reflection.

Creating a printed magazine is a way to slow down, a way to establish a more intimate connection with the artists, a way to complement images with words to discover the deeper meaning of photography.

In this first issue, we explore photography as a way to cope with grief and as a way to reconnect with a dying father; photography as a tool for creative survival, and as a way to find beauty in the unusual; photography as a way to preserve what is disappearing, and as a way to inspire one’s work in other visual disciplines; photography as a way to indulge in nostalgia, and as a way to travel to parallel worlds built to escape reality.

In this issue:

Christopher Barr
Bernarda Conic
Kohl Donnely
Gabriele Fanelli
Craig Gibson
Lawrence Hardy
Steven Hirsch
Salvatore Matarazzo
Dario Miale
Maria Moldes
Larry Niehues
Martin Salter
Benj Story
Roberto Timperi
Trevor Traynor
Lola Vogels

Cover: 300gsm

Front cover by Steven Hirsch, 1992
Back cover by Roberto Timperi, 2022

Pages: 100 pages, 150gsm

Size: 22x28cm

Binding: Thread sewn