The first edition of book A Sensitive Education was released in January 2020 by the independent publishing house Départ Pour l’Image, of which the author is co-founder. A second edition was published in 2021.
Awards:
Premio Amilcare G. Ponchielli for the best italian photobook 2020/21.
Special mention at Premio Marco Bastianelli for the best italian photobook of 2020.
Book details:
112 pages
155x215 mm
Hard Cover
4-color offset with UV inks
First Edition January 2020
300 numbered copies
Second Edition May 2021
500 numbered copies
Publisher: Départ Pour l’Image,
ISBN 978 88 944622 2 7
35€
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“I opened the book and my breath slowed. 2020 fell away. Francesca Todde has described in visual, visceral terms, a particular understanding of birds.“
Terri Weifenbach - Photo-Eye 2020 Favorite Photobooks
“A Sensitive Education is a call to regain our sensitivity, to find our balance with nature, and to pay closer attention to the world around us. It is a thoughtful and beautifully produced book, that delivers a powerful acclamation of Plot’s vision. “
Olga Yatskevich - Collector Daily
“A sensitive education is by no means a demonstration, but a strong poetic perception of the co-partnership of man and the animal kingdom.”
Fabien Ribery - L’intervalle
“In the time that subject and object of this narrative granted to each other lies the successful attempt to communicate through codes that have been lost in favor of a rationalizing evolution, but that the relationship between individuals — not necessarily of the same species — can still teach us to regain.”
Raffaele Vertaldi - Domus
Press Review and Interviews:
Collector Daily
by Olga Yatskevich
American Suburb X
by Brad Feuerhelm
Photomonitor.co.uk
by Francesca Marcaccio Hitzeman
Photoeye
2020 Best Books
by Terri Weifenbach
Photobookstore
Best books of 2020
by Terri Weifenbach
Fabien Ribery
L’Intervalle Blog
Fisheye Magazine
by Eric Karsenty
Blind Magazine
by Anne Laurens
Selected exhibitions:
Circulation(s) Paris
Cortona on the Move
PVF Helsinki
ARCOOP wall project Geneve
Les Boutographies (projection)
Les Nuits de Pierrevert
BYOPaper! Les Rencontres d’Arles
