The artist

The child of immigrants — Sicily, Poland, Belgium. Movement and displacement were already in him before he ever picked up a camera.

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The process

Printed by hand.
Assembled by hand.
Scanned by hand.

Each piece begins as a grid — sections of an image printed one by one through a thermal printer. The heat is inconsistent. The contrast shifts. The seams show. None of it is corrected. That is the work.

"I came to a point I had been led to by myself."

Davide Campanella