A case of two projects with migrant Italian prostitutes as their subject matter
In the last few years, as Google's Street View photography cars continue their march around the world, several artists and photographers have made use of Google's vast archive in their work, combing it for images of interest and presenting them in different ways as standalone projects. Detractors of such projects cite their inherent detachment, lack of contextual information and the murky conceptual liberties taken with authorship. But Paolo Patrizi's photographs of migrant prostitutes in Italy go beyond words in deftly critiquing this nascent, controversial genre.
