Almanac of Forgotten Memories
In 2020 I became a father for the second time, and I moved back to Milan after living in New York for 8 years. The last time I lived in Milan was in 2010, and back then I was single, studying Mechanical Engineering and spending the nights dreaming of becoming an artist. It felt like a transformative life cycle had ended and another one had begun. My book, “Almanac of Forgotten Memories” explores this transformation.
The book is structured like an uncommon diary, where images and text create a narrative that continues throughout its 365(-ish) pages. Like a diary, the book is divided into 12 chapters, but unlike a classical diary, each chapter represents a month taken from a different year. A clean design accompanies the reader through the non-linear narrative, creating cohesiveness and clarity throughout the chapters without imposing an excessively rigid structure.
This book was born out of a necessity to give meaning and weight to an ever-growing pile of images, an obsessive catalog of small treasures found in everyday life. The structure and design elements help to create cohesiveness between these visual fragments and the scattered lines of text, holding the hand of the reader when necessary and letting it go at the right moment. The result is a collection of memories, events, and instances that come together creating a blurry painting of 12 years in a life.
The dummy has been shortlisted for the FE + SK award 2024 within the Fotografia Europea Festival.
The dummy has been shortlisted by the Dummy Award 2024, awarded by the Photbook Museum in Cologne
It has been designed by Bahut Studio.
