ART SHOP
Marco Bucchieri (Rome, 1952) is a writer, lecturer and multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes mixed media, photography, installation, symbolism and allegory. Active since the 1970s, his artistic work focuses on visual poetry and literary narrative between image and writing, placing himself at the intersection of time, place and memory through the creation of exhibitions, installations, conceptual images and books.
His photographic works are in many public and private collections in Italy, Denmark, UK, USA and Turkey, in the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts of Milano, in the Modern Art Gallery of Cento and in the MUSINF in Senigallia, and in the permanent collection of Museo Spazio Pubblico.
Marco is a Senior Advisor for City Space Architecture and a Resident Artist at Museo Spazio Pubblico in Bologna.
Ashraf Talaat (Cairo, 1967) is a social documentary photographer and photojournalist. Before becoming a photographer in 1989, he studied Genetics. Over the past three decades, Talaat has worked on various projects and contributed photo essays to magazines like National Geographic Arabia, Egypt Today, Business, Le Revue, Travel Today, Carnival, and Creative Images in India. He has also collaborated with organizations such as UNHCR and UNIDO. Talaat’s photographs have been exhibited internationally, and he has published fourphotography books: VISION, PEOPLE THROUGH THE LENS, POINT OF VIEW, MOMENTS IN OUR LIFE and NAMIBIA.
In 2007 Talaat was honored with the fellowship of the Royal Society of Great Britain in Documentary and Visual Journalism (FRPS). He has completed several significant projects, including “The Golden Oil” in Spain (2023), “The Face of Cuba” in Cuba (2022), and “Excavation Exploration Sakkara” in Egypt (2022), among others in China, Thailand, Singapore, Nepal, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Namibia, Zanzibar, and Zambia. Talaat has received 153 international awards and honors, including the Photographer of the Year award at the Venice International Photo Contest in 2005 and two Maulana Azad Gold Medals for his humanitarian and cultural projects in India in 2008 and 2016. In 2018, he was appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for Photography in Africa by IATF.
