Francesco Gioia
‘We Have Learned
to Distrust Images’
by Francesco Gioia, published by Void.
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16,8 × 22 cm
96 pages
Cloth Quarter-bound Hardcover
ISBN 978-618-5479-53-4
“I’m interested in the moment when an image becomes difficult to place; when something looks familiar, but you can no longer tell quite what you are looking at, or how it was made.”
Francesco Gioia
We Have Learned
to Distrust Images
‘We Have Learned to Distrust Images’ is a vivid exploration of the tension between what an image appears to show, and how an image has actually been made. Working across photography and collage, Francesco Gioa brings together his own street photography with imagery and printed material he has discovered sifting through newspapers and magazines. Finding and selecting images, he cuts, combines and layers these fragments, transforming their original contexts before photographing the resulting collages.
“The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe.”
John Berger
At a time when images are increasingly difficult to distinguish as evidence, fabrication, documentation or something in between, the artist approaches this uncertainty through embracing an entirely physical and analogue process. Aware of our climate in which our relationship to the photographic image is shifting rapidly, Gioia’s images resist digital manipulation in favour of human touch, chance and a sequence of tangible decisions. The resulting photographs occupy an uncertain space between the familiar and the impossible, inviting us to look again at what an image might be and how it comes to be believed.
We Have Learned
to Distrust Images
16,8 × 22 cm
96 pages
500 copies
Cloth Quarterbound Hardcover
ISBN 978-618-5479-53-4
Francesco Gioia
Francesco Gioia is an artist working with photography and collage based in London, United Kingdom. His collages are crafted from newspapers and magazines dating from the 1920s–60s, sourced worldwide, alongside a broader range of printed materials including illustrations, periodicals, catalogues, and scientific journals. A recipient of numerous international awards, his work has been published in The Guardian, The Washington Post, La Repubblica, Vanity Fair, NZZ am Sonntag Magazine and other major publications. His photograph ‘Woman in Red’ was used as the cover image for the 2025 reissue of ‘Les Grandes Blondes’ by Jean Echenoz, published by Les Éditions de Minuit. He is a contributing photographer for Zeit Magazine. He has exhibited across the UK, USA, Africa, and Europe and has published a monograph, 57, with Parallel Editions. Selected clients include Charles Blunier, Xiaomi, Leica. His photography is represented for licensing by Stills.
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Photograph: Francesco Gioia
Collage: Francesco Gioia
Edit, Design: João Linneu, Myrto Steirou
Printing: Jelgavas tipogrāfija
Binding: Jelgavas tipogrāfija
Language: English
Font: Aeonik Pro Regular by CoType, Pencerio Hairline by Indian Type Foundry
Francesco Gioia © for the photographs
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17,1 x 24,4 cm
144 pages
Hardcover with French folds
ISBN 978-618-5479-45-9
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Riso print:
16 x 22,5 cm
Signed by the Artist
Limited Edition of 50