I’m Showing You – How Big The Sky Is

I’m Showing You – How Big The Sky Is

Photos by Chiou Taur Wu
Autor : Martina Bacigalupo
Publisher : L’Artiere
Release Date : 2024
Book size : 11×15 cm
English
ISBN : 9791280978110

“I’m showing how big the sky is” is a tribute by Martina Bacigalupo to her former nanny Chiou Taur Wu, a Taiwanese woman who lived for more than three decades in Italy.

Battered by life – from a childhood spent in the fields of the south of the country to working in a factory in Taipei, while still a teenager, to the gambling debts of her Italian husband which forced her to work day and night – Chiou Taur don’t let yourself be defeated. Returning to Taiwan at almost 70 years old, she decides to take her revenge on life and do everything she was unable to do before: she resumes her studies, enrolls in ballroom dance classes , and begins to travel.

Through hundreds of photos received from Chiou during ten years of correspondence, the Italian photographer offers us the story of extraordinary resilience. Told in the first person, with images and words by Chiou, this book, published by L’Artiere Éditions, is a song of freedom, full of humor and poetry.

Sur le vif’ broadcast on 21 September 2024 by Brigitte Patient – In french
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C’est une histoire forte que raconte ici Martina Bacigalupo.
Le livre est fait de photos et textes. Photos ? plutôt cartes postales. Il faut dire que la photographe a une appétence pour la photo vernaculaire.
Le livre a donc un format carte postale, fait de photos que Martina a reçues sur Skype pendant 10 ans.