Alessandro Genovese is a photographer and the founder of the Pix in a Box project. He works primarily with analogue techniques and instant-development photographic processes, in this case using a street box camera: a self-built wooden view camera with an integrated darkroom, inspired by the model mainly used by travelling photographers between the late 19th century and the 1960s. During Il Cinema Ritrovato he will be present at some of the festival’s venues to create analogue portraits of guests and the public.

“My research focuses especially on portraiture and street photography, with a slow and direct approach that centres around the encounter with the people being photographed. My goal is to restore photography as a physical and concrete experience: an image built in front of the subjects, in real time, with tangible materials, and a direct relationship between photographer, subject and urban space” (Alessandro Genovese).