Non dite che siamo pochi
Italy
2019
The starting point of Non dite che siamo pochi (Don’t say there aren’t many of us) was a chance encounter between MB and the photographer in 2016 when Umberto was doing a summer job in the countryside near Lyon. MB is an anarchist from Italy. For a whole decade, from the mid-1990s, he produced and collected an incredible quantity of materials – images, objects, newspapers and documents – illustrating his travels, battles and actions in various parts of Europe. A few months after this encounter, Umberto Coa obtained part of these archives and organised them, according to the little information they provided and the stories MB had told him. This is why Non dite che siamo pochi cannot be considered a testimony or an exact reconstruction of events. At best, it is simply a story.
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About the artist
Umberto Coa is born in 1988 in Palermo. After graduating in Law at University of Milan, Umberto Coa studied documentary photography at the Fondazione Studio Marangoni, in Florence, where he graduated in October 2016. His latest projects explore issues of transmission and shifting meaning of images by building up historical narratives where facts and fiction coexist. He lives and works between Palermo and Bordeaux. He was born in Palermo in 1988.