The Work of Today
Contemporary views of poor, intermittent, invisible work: portraits, scenes and details that official photojournalism rarely captures.
28 itemsJob interview: man, woman
Same candidate, two different questionings
The cleaning worker and the luxury window
Cleaning what shines, staying in shadow
Woman cleaning, against the light
Care work, in shadow
The mop, the cot, the walker
The triple shift of care, in a few square metres
Glovo rider with a child on the handlebars
The algorithm, the child, the city
“Soldi finiti” — Out of money
The calendar as a ledger of scarcity
At the sewing machine, seen from behind
Present, but faceless
The old hand beneath the machine
The machine's real engine
Heels and broom, two worlds on the same ground
Class difference encoded in footwear
Bread in a wheelbarrow, derelict space
An invisible gesture of solidarity
Boots and spade
The absent worker, the trace they leave
Champagne and broom
Two worlds, one metre apart
The second shift, on the paperwork
When the day ends, another day begins
The cleaning shift, after the market
When the public has gone
The glove and the bare hand
Who is protected, who is not
“Dreaming is free”
The advertised paradise and the dark room
Resources
The body as raw material
The tourists
What the journey does not see
Pomegranate vendor
Stall, transport and workplace — all in a single cart, in a Moroccan market
Donkeys with hides at the tannery, Morocco
A leather supply chain at work without interruption since the Middle Ages
The egg stall
The small trader's everyday effort
The old man at the wholesaler's
A figure of informal work in Morocco's souks
The chimney, from the train
The Italian industrial landscape in transit
Truck at rest, at sunset
Logistics as a landscape, on the city edge
The Ospedale Maggiore payroll book, 1948
A parallel exhibition: the labour archive as artefact
Elderly man under the portico
Still in motion, still part of the urban economy
Chinese garment workshop
The submerged tier of the textile supply chain
In front of the exhibition
How much of others' suffering really reaches us?