Ivor Prickett's War Photography at Collezione Maramotti

The Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia presents "No Home from War," a solo exhibition by Irish photojournalist Ivor Prickett (born 1983, Cork). Rather than focusing directly on combat, Prickett's lens captures the consequences of war through fragments of hypothetical daily life rendered precarious by conflict. The show features 50 photographs taken since 2006, arranged chronologically by reportage: Croatia and Serbia, Abkhazia, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. A longtime contributor to the New York Times, Prickett employs aesthetic devices—such as the pictorial "picture within a picture" and references to historical painting—to enhance testimony and documentation. The work emphasizes forced migration alongside war events, often depicting an obstinate, impossible intimacy within shattered buildings where inhabitants become transient intruders. Prickett's images avoid absolute realism, instead constructing an allegorical language that sacrifices the "decisive moment" for a suspended, paradigmatic atmosphere. This generates a sense of constitutive instability in today's world, where no one is safe or innocent, and official narratives lack reality when viewed from the ground. The exhibition was reviewed by Stefano Castelli.