Photoshelter
In 2015 we launched the "Photo Shelter" project curated by Maria Savarese.
Every year our website hosts the photographs of an artist with whom we have come into contact in the past: in fact, it is now more than ten years that the Firm has been working alongside and supporting the work of photographers by protecting their copyright, assisting them in negotiating sales contracts, commission agreements, delivery agreements with retailers, etc.
The subject of photography is a topic dear to our firm, we have assisted several photographers in litigation (including the Cox-Marras case), and we have been collaborating since 2018 with Pixsy, an internationally active portal in the protection of photographers' copyright.
From Carlo Orsi to Giulio Parisio, from Franco Pasti to Giada Ripa, from Matteo Gastel to Gianni Fiorito, Photoshelter has now been configured for 10 years as an open archive ready to welcome the work of many other photographers significant to the Firm.
Photoshelter's mission is to merge our legal practice with our passion for photography and its consequent valorization.
Stefano De Luigi - Televisiva
Photoshelter 2025, is dedicated to Stefano De Luigi. Born in Cologne and raised in Rome, Stefano De Luigi has lived between Milan and Paris, his city of choice. Photography is his chosen language for sharing stories and visions. As a documentary photographer, he has always explored humanity through social and cultural phenomena in which images play a dominant role, such as television, cinema, pornography, advertising and propaganda. Particularly in recent years, when the overproduction of images has challenged the authorship of photographers, De Luigi has reflected on the very meaning of photography, pointing it in ever different directions in the service of a message, a question or a communicative urgency.
His work has received numerous international awards, including four World Press Photo prizes (1998, 2007, 2010, 2011), the Eugene Smith Memorial Fund (2008), Soros Foundation's Moving Walls (2009), the Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography (2010), and the Days Japan International Photojournalism Award (2010), working with several major international magazines, such as The New Yorker, Time, Geo, Paris Match, and Stern. Since 2008, he has been a member of VII Foundation as a photographer and educator.
He has published the books Pornoland (Thames & Hudson, 2004), Blanco (Trolley Book, 2010), iDyssey (Edition Bessard, 2017), Babel with Michela Battaglia (Postcart, 2018), Pornoland Redux (self-published, 2021), Il Bel Paese (L'Artiere, 2023) and Televisiva (L'Artiere), presented at Paris Photo in November 2024.
After being invited for an artistic residency at the Planches Contact Festival in Deauville (2022), he received the “Strategie Fotografia” grant from the Italian Ministry of Culture in 2023 for his project Il Bel Paese, exhibiting simultaneously in numerous galleries and museums, including Modern Applied Art in Belgrade (2023), Palazzo Ducale in Genoa (2018/2023), Fondazione Stelline in Milan (2012), the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva (2010) Mart in Rovereto (2010) and the Corcoran Museum in Washington (2010).
These photographs, selected for Photoshelter 2025, are part of the Televisiva project, a work carried out by De Luigi between 1994 and 2009 on the television industry-Macao, I cervelloni, Non è la Rai, Domenica In, Il grande fratello-put together by Silvio Berlusconi during his two decades of political and media power management. Exhibited some 25 years later, they can be conceived as a true sociological and psychological investigation relating to an era and its individuals, giving us back the image of a media and existential circus that is a metaphor for a decadent society.
Maria Savarese
