A photographic exhibition by Francesco Milani, showing a selection of exquisite photos depicting a post war Europe between 1952 and 1962.
From atmospheric shots of Milano’s stazione centrale and rural Sardenia, to lyrical circus moments and the sooty industrial landscape of the Hamburg docks. The reproduction work required a delicate, nuanced and skilled approach to ensure the characteristic photo-reportage feel and style of the photographs could fully come to expression in the prints.

Taken with a medium format camera on black and white film, the photographs have been enlarged and printed on a tactile matte mould made paper, with the use of three shades of black ink and one toning ink. The complete reproduction work was done in house, film negatives were wet scanned and the enlargements inkjet printed with an unconventional technique that was refined by Flavio over a number of years. The images are digitally developed and rasterized at a staggeringly resolution of 720 pixels per inch, each individual pixel rendered on to paper with 8 minuscule droplets of ink. Printing is mostly concerned and focused on the interaction between ink droplets and the reproduced silver halide grain originally present in the emulsion of the negatives. The resulting prints are of an exceptional definition and tonal rendition, lending the physical print a unique and truly exquisite feel.

Piezo-inkjet prints, quadtone on matte cotton paper.
21 enlargements, 24 x 24 cm, framed size 32 x 45 cm, anthracite aluminium