“Americhe”

An exhibition of photographs by Francesco Nonino

Photographer Francesco Nonino’s contemporary portraits feature     individuals who migrated to the United States from the Pordenone province in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy. The subjects are immigrants and their children living in Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey.

The exhibition comprises juxtaposed photographs of the immigrants’ faces and their hands, many of them accompanied by quotations and personal anecdotes gathered from interviews. Nonino’s paired images convey the struggles and achievements of Friulani immigrants, who built new lives through a combination of hard physical work and love, commitment, and intelligence.

(pictures of Louis Colussi, Philadelphia)

“Americhe” (America) in the local Friuli dialect is used figuratively to indicate a far away, almost unreachable place, or an ambitious aim.

The project has been developed by the Archivio Multimediale della Memoria dell’Emigrazione Regionale (AMMER) of the region Friuli-Venezia Giulia (http://www.ammer-fvg.org).

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog published by the Center for Research and

Archiviation of Photography (CRAF) (http://www.craf-fvg.it/).

Thursday, February 11, 2010 – Slide presentation at 6:00 p.m.

Opening reception: 5:30 -7:30 pm

Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5:30pm

America-Italy Society of Philadelphia – 1420 Walnut Street, Suite 310 – Philadelphia, PA 19102

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