Gioia, Francesco: We Have Learned to Distrust Images (pre-order signed copies)

This book is part of 'VOID at 10', an evening of artist talks, conversation and book signings to mark publisher Void's 10 year anniversary, featuring Elena Helfrecht, Milan Gies, Francesco Gioia and Rory King. Pre-ordered signed copies of this title will be shipped after 20 November. 

‘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 Gioia 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.

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.

Title: We Have Learned to Distrust Images
Publisher, Year: VOID, 2026
Photographer: Francesco Gioia
Format: Cloth Quarterbound Hardcover
Edition: 500copies
Size: 16,8 × 22 cm, 96 pages
ISBN 978-618-5479-53-4