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I'm travelling to Sao Tomé island from 18th August in order to develop a new chapter of the Cham project.
The work will be done in collaboration with Alliance Française de São Tomé et Príncipe. I'll be available for assignments.

Mythologies of Resistance ( the Ayiti and Mas series ) was presented as part of the Fotofestiwal 2019. Art curator Jeanne Mercier.

From 13th to 30th June 2019.
Art_Inkubator, Fotofestiwal, Lodz - Poland.

The Regla series on Afro-Cuban underground was exhibited at Images Singulières Festival in Sète - France.

From 29th May to 16th June 2019.
Regla, Espace SNCF, Sète.

The Obia series on Maroon communities of Suriname and French Guiana is published in VRIJ Nederland. Text by Lizzy Van Leeuwen.

"Het slavernijmuseum komt er, maar wiens verhaal gaat het vertellen?"

AIDES (French community-based non-profit organisatio fighting HIV/AIDS invited Nicola Lo Calzo to speak on his work as part the first Caribbean colloquium around lgbti rights and struggle against homophobia in the Caribbean: ReLOVution.

Seminar Caribbean ReLOVution
Friday 5th, Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th aPRIL 2019.
Langley Resort Fort Royal - Dehaies - Guadeloupe.

Ten years after the inauguration, at the Aquitaine Museum of the section "Bordeaux, Atlantic Trade and Slavery", this seventh edition of the Rencontres Atlantiques proposes to analyze the material traces of slavery and treaties in terms of semiophores. Nicola Lo Calzo is presenting "Cham. Mémoires de l’esclavage colonial : une enquête photographique, 2010-2020".


09-10 Mai, 2019
Musée d’Aquitaine - 20 Cours Pasteur. 33000 Bordeaux

Published by the Musée de l'Elysée, this book presents the projects of the eight nominees of the third edition of the Elysée Prize: Laia Abril, Mathieu Asselin, Claude Baechtold, Alexandra Catière, Alinka Echeverría, Gregory Halpern, Nicola Lo Calzo and Luis Carlos Tovar have been selected by the museum from over 325 applicants from around the world.

The doors of Maison Dufort, hosting the first exhibition of Kazal, will remain open until April 16, 2019 for guided tours with the photographers who authored this project: Edine Celestin Fabienne Douce Ray-ginald Paklè Louissaint Mackenson Saint Felix Georges Harry Rouzier Moses Pierre

KAZAL is a photographic project that unpublishes the memories of the dictatorship of François Duvalier in Haiti. The project, produced by FOKAL and Kolektif 2D under Nicola Lo Calzo's artistic and curatorial direction, is both a book for the André Frère edition, a traveling exhibition and a long-format web.

Maison Dufort - Port-au-Prince - Haïti
KAZAL, Memories of a massacre under Duvalier: a photographic approach.
28th march - 30th april 2019

EL PAIS published the series CASTA all over the 17th December 2018 week: Casta y Raza. Every day a photograph, for a week. Many thanks to Gorka Lejarcegui Zubizarreta and all the team.

Africa is no Island - Zinsou Foundation - Cotonou  Benin
November 2-2018  / April 27-2019

Co-founders of Afrique in Visu, Jeanne Mercier and Baptiste de Ville d’Avray, working alongside independent associate curator Madeleine de Colnet have brought together artists who have previously worked with the platform and artists whose works are part of the museum’s collection.

The University Paris-Est Créteil with the association "Thinking the World" organize a talk with a projection around the CHAM project , Tuesday, December 4 at 18:00 at the Amphitheater numero 1 of the campus.

AKAA Art Fair

Dominique Fiat gallery shows the works of Vivian Van BLERK, Safâa ERRUAS, Nicola LO CALZO, Emo de MEDEIROS, Hady SY

November 9 - 11 2018, Opening November 8 
Carreau du Temple, 4 rue Eugène Spuller 75003 – Paris France

D Repubblica is out now with a photo story on the Casta series (Louisiana and Mississippi): "The races do not exist, relationships exist".
Text by the journalist Laura Piccinini / November 17th 2018 Issue

FOAM is out now with a 17 pages photo story on the Regla series (Cuba). Text by Cuban art curator Iliana Cepero
FOAM Magazine #51, Seer/Believer: The mythical Issue.

AfricAmericanos, curated by Claudi Carreras, will open at Centro de la Imagen in Mexico city on August 16, 2018.

The exhibition presents, for the first time in Mexico, the work of Nicola Lo Calzo with an installation of photographs from the series Obia, on Maroon people of Guianas.
Lo Calzo will be in Mexico from August 14 to 21  2018. In collaboration with L'agence à Paris.

AfricAmericanos, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico.
August 16 - November 4 2018.

On the occasion of Photo Basel Art Fair, The Guardian publishes a photo issue about the ongoing project Cham. June 12, 2018.

Contact Sheet 197, Light Work Annual 2018 is out now
with a photo story on the Casta series (Louisiana and Mississippi).
Text by writer and journalist Max Lakin.

Nicola Lo Calzo is nominated to the 3rd edition of the Prix Elysée.

Nicola Lo Calzo, for whom the Mediterranean has never been a border, aims to reacquaint us with a migrant, Binidittu, the name given to the hermit Saint Benedict the Moor, the son of African slaves and born in Sicily in the 16th century. Upon his death, the Afro-Sicilian friar became an icon. Canonized in 1807, he was the Catholic Church’s first black saint and was made Patron Saint of Palermo. Binidittu is a reflection on the treatment of migrants on the shores of the Mare nostrum, an allegory for our time.

Nicola Lo Calzo is recipient of 2018 CNAP fellowship by French Ministry of Culture with the new chapter of the Cham project: Binidittu.

Centre National des arts plastiques, Paris.

Lo Calzo will present at Photo Basel with Balsa Arte Gallery from 12 to 17 June 2018.

As part of Milano Photo Week, Internazionale invited Lo Calzo to a lecture around the Cham project with the writer and journalist Igiaba Scego.

Royal Palace, Sala delle Cariatidi, Milano. June 12, 2018. 12 am.

As part of Ola Cuba! season, the series Regla, on Afro-Cuban microsocietes, is now exhibited at Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse in Lille with an installation designed by Nicola Lo Calzo.

In collaboration with Art Curator Justine Weulersse, Lille3000 production, l'Agence à Paris, Dominique Fiat and La Balsa Arté.

Musée de l'Hospcie Comtesse,
32 Rue de la Monnaie Lille France
May 5 - July 1, 2018.

The series Caravana, on the Fidel Castro funeral Caravan of Freedom, is exhibited in a solo show with Ola Cuba!, the Cuban contemporary art event in Lille.
Art Curator Justine Weulersse. Lille3000 production.

OLA CUBA!
Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille
Opening April 19, 7pm
April 19 - September 2 , 2018.

Harvard University invited Nicola Lo Calzo to present the work Regla (Cuba) during the international conference Black Portraitures IV: The Color of Silence. Many thanks to Alejandro de la Fuente.

Afro-Cuban Heritage: emancipatory practices and cultural action by Nicola Lo Calzo,  Ivor Miller and Paulette Young,
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street March 24, 2018 2:45 pm - 4:15 pm, Harvard University, Cambridge, US.

L'Agence à Paris (Stand 35A) present a selection of photograph from the Cham project at Mia Photo Fair in Milano from 8th to 12th March, with the works of Gosette Lubondo, Uche Okpa-Iroha and Andrew Tshabangu.

Africa Aperta - Part II Group Exhibition

Nicola Lo Calzo, Ndidi Dike, Safâa Erruas, Emo de Medeiros, Karin Miller, Rowan Smith

10 February - 28 April, 2018
Dominique Fiat Gallery
16 Rue des Coutures Paris

As part of the seminar "Slavery and post-slavery", organized by the CIRESC, Lo Calzo is invited to share a panel with the anthropologist Alessandra Brivio around our works on Tchamba vodun in Togo and Benin. Many thanks to Gaetano Ciarcia for inviting me.

March 9,  3 pm. EHESS, 105 Bd Raspail 75006, Paris

The series Tchamba (Togo, Benin) is published in the italian magazine Internazionale.

Il ritorno tra i vivi Photo story in issue 2th March, 2018. Many thanks to Elena Boille.

Africa is no Island - Makaal - Marrakesh
February 24  – August 24 2018

In the occasion of the international launch of the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Marrakech, co-founders of Afrique in Visu, Jeanne Mercier and Baptiste de Ville d’Avray, working alongside independent associate curator Madeleine de Colnet have brought together artists who have previously worked with the platform and artists whose works are part of the museum’s collection.

The series Tchamba (Togo, Benin) features with a photo story in the french magazine L'Obs.

Tchamba es-tu là? Photo story in issue 4th January, 2018.

The ongoing Cham project will be showed in the first solo exhibition, featuring all the works produced to date, curated by Monica Santos at La Balsa Arte Gallery in Bogotà. Opening saturday 21th October at 11 a.m.

Cham, A Work in Progress
La Balsa Arte, Carrera 5 No. 26C 47, Bogotá Colombia From 21th October, 2017 to 20th Januar,  2018. In collaboration with l’Agence à Paris.

For further information, you can write to  María Uribe: mariauribeolarte@gmail.com

The British Journal of Photography interviewed Nicola Lo Calzo  about my new book Regla and my ongoing project Cham.

Nicola Lo Calzo finds freedom and community in the Afro-Cuban legacy, Written by Eoin Murray.

The new series Tchamba (Togo) is exhibited at Lagosphoto Festival 2017.

Opening saturday 25th November 6pm.
The Wings Building, Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos.

From 25th November to 15th December,  2017.

The series Regla (Cuba) is exhibited at Benaki Museum in Athens.

Opening June 14, 8.30 pm Benaki Museum, Peiraios str. Annexe Athens.

Athens Photo Festival from June 14 to July 30, 2017.

The new series Tchamba will be exhibited for the first time at Afriques Capitales, Vers le Cap de Bonne Espérance in Lille – France. The exhibition is curated by Simon Njami.

Tchamba – Nicola Lo Calzo
From  April 6 to September 3, 2017
Gare Saint Sauveur – Boulevard Jean Baptiste Lebas, 59000 Lille, France

Regla, the new Lo Calzo’s opus, is featured in Vogue Italia with an article by Francesca Marani. March 10, 2017

Slavery’s legacies, black struggles & white suprematism, Panel guided by Jean-Philippe Dedieu.

With Nicola Lo Calzo, Audrey Célestine & Chrystal M. Fleming.

Monday 16th January 7pm, Columbia Global Centers - Paris.
Reid Hall, 4 rue de Chevreuse , 75006 Paris.

Nicola Lo Calzo was interviewed by Aperture in advance of the exhibition of Regla, currently on view at the fourth edition of the Portrait(s) festival in Vichy, France.

Interview by Yves Chatap.

Invited by Fokal Foundation, for three years Nicola Lo Calzo is leading a photography workshop in Haiti, about the memory of Cazale’s massacre and Duvalier Dictature. 

The workshop involving Haitian photographers of KD2 group will led to the publication of a photobook, the first of its kind.

Listes des photographes
Participants: Edine Celestine
Fabienne Douce
Mackenson S. Felix
Dumas Maçon
George Harry Rouzier
Moise Pierre
Rayginal Louissant

Nicola Lo Calzo documents the Fidel Castro Mourning Days in Cuba for The Wall Street Journal.

For any request concerning the rest of the photographs and the entire story, please write to contact@nicolalocalzo.com

The series Regla is shown at International Festival of Photography in Angkor.

Angkor Photo Festival
December 3 - December 12, 2016. Angkor.

Light Work Committee is pleased to announce that Nicola Lo Calzo is named 2017 Light Work artist-in-residence.

Every year Light Work invites between twelve and fifteen artists to come to Syracuse to devote one month to creative projects.

The ongoing project Cham is shorlisted for the Burn Emerging Photographer Fund 2016.

From Asia to the Americas, to Europe, wherever Africans were forcibly taken away, memories of slavery are present sometimes visible, but often repressed voluntarily or not.
In Guyana, as in the Caribbean, the Maroon communities born of resistance to slavery are still marginalized.

Meeting with Dom Pedro (director of Black Tango) and Nicola Lo Calzo, author of photographic works especially devoted to Suriname and Cuba.

RFI, Memory of a Continent, by Elikia M’Bokolo, in collaboration with Unesco.

Nicola Lo Calzo invited by the first channel of Guyane to speak about his ongoing exhibition Obia in Saint Laurent du Maroni.

Guyane 1ère News, October 19th 2016

The series Obia is exhibited for the first time in French Guiana, at Bushinengue village of Charbonnière in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.

In collaboration with association La Tête dans les Images.
Opening Firday Ocotber 7, 4.45pm. In the frame of  Maroon culture day, organized by  the association Respeki.

Obia – Nicola Lo Calzo
From October 7 2016 to January 2017.
Esplanade de la Charbonnière – Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana.

Regla, the new Lo Calzo’s series, is featured in Libération. August 12/13 weekend issue, 2016.

With a piece by Laure Troussière: A Regla, l’amour du rite.  

Regla, the new Lo Calzo’s opus, is featured in Internazionale. July 8, 2016.

Photo Issue La vita sotterranea di Cuba (Cuba Underground), 8 pages.

Nicola Lo Calzo invited by the french radio program Regarder voir! to speak about his project about slavery’s legacy and postcolonial memories Cham and the new opus Regla, on show at Portrait(s) Festival in Vichy.

France Inter, Regarder voir! by Brigitte Patient.

Regla, the new Lo Calzo’s series, is featured in exclusive in The New Yorker. June 15, 2016.

With a piece by Jean-Philippe Dedieu: Vital Rituals of the Afro-Cuban Underground.

The new series Regla will be exhibited for the first time at International Festival of Photography  Portrait(s) in Vichy– France.

Regla – Nicola Lo Calzo

From  June 10 to September 4, 2016

Centre Culturel Valery-Larbaud – 15 Rue Maréchal Foch, 03200 Vichy, France

On the occasion of the anniversary of slavery’s abolition in Netherlands, the 1st July 1863,  VRJI Nederland publishes a ten pages portfolio on the series Obia, about maroon communities in Surinam & French Guiana. #26, July 2, 2016

Mas – Nicola Lo Calzo Opening Thuesday June 21 7pm. Festival Allers-Retours 2016

Exposition collective Sortez des clichés ! Regard sur des patrimoines vivants Albert-Kahn Museum
14, rue du Port 92100, Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) From June 21 to October 2, 2016.

The project Obia runs in the italian magazine Internazionale, n°1129,  portfolio « Il profumo della libertà », 6 pages. Tags: maroon, maroonage, bushinengue, slavery, freedom, resistance, survival, legacy.

Meeting about the work of Nicola Lo Calzo, with the journalist and photographer Mathieu Oui. Safe the date: 4th November 2015, 6h30 pm at Café Le Lescot, 5 Rue Lassus, 75019, Paris.

UNESCO: Coalition of Artists for the General History of Africa. An international coalition involving artists in the promotion of the General History of Africa was launched at UNESCO on 7 October. The coalition will help young people use the unique instrument that the History represents in recounting the continent’s past from an African perspective.

Obia is on show at International Festival of Photography of Belo Horizonte in Brazil.

Obia – Nicola Lo Calzo
From  October 2 to November 29, 2015
CâmeraSete – Casa da Fotografia de Minas
Av Afonso Pena, 737 – Belo Horizonte – Brazil

The series Obia is featured in the current issue of french magazine L’Obs. 
Portfolio “L’esprit des Marrons” / 25th June 2015 Issue.

The French magazine Libération features the series Obia with a text by Laura Troussière / 24th August 2015 Issue.

The series Obia, Maroons of Suriname and French Guiana features in the New Yorker with a text by American writer and art critic Hilton Als. 06.08/06.15 issue. The 6 pages porfolio is also available on line.

The French magazine Marianne publishs an interview about the series Obia et the long term project Cham. 
Interview by Frédérique Briard 11/06/2015

Obia - Nicola Lo Calzo

From May 20 to June 20 2015
Opening 20th May 6pm Dominique Fiat Gallery
16 rue des Coutures Saint Gervais 75003 Paris

The series Obia, Maroons of Suriname and French Guiana is published in German mag ZEIT, “Obia, Gott ist ein Papagei”.

The Casta, Ayiti and Tchamba works will be exhibited by Dominique Fiat Gallery
With L’agence à paris

From November 13 to November 16, 2014
Paris Photo, Grand Palais Stand: B17

Obia – Nicola Lo Calzo
Memorial to the abolition of slavery

from May 10 to September 30 2015
Quai de la Fosse – Passerelle Victor-Schoelcher - 44200 Nantes France

Production: Direction du Patrimoine et de l’architecture de la Ville de Nantes, l’agence à paris
Production assistance: Château des ducs de Bretagne, Musée d’histoire de Nantes
Texts: Françoise Vergés, Nicola Lo Calzo
Graphic design: Chiara Runci
Installation: Métalobil

Guyane, à 150 bornes de la liberté, my reportage on ostracism and discriminations of LGBTI community in French Guiana, released in the current Têtu issue, Avril 2015. 8 pages. Text and photo by Lo Calzo. With the collaboration of AIDES Guyane.

Nicola Lo Calzo and the association La Tête dans les Images open a window on photography for middle and high school classes in Saint-Laurent du Maroni and Mana, in French Guiana.
From 7th to 17th October 2014, conferences on the photo-documentary Cham, Memories and legacy of slavery and slave trade will be proposed, as well as photographic workshops, real initiations to documentary photography.

Contact: Juliette Guaveïa
latetedanslesimagesguyane@gmail.com
La Tête dans les Images

The Salon de la Photo presents Les Grandes Rencontres, animated by Photographie.com
Thursday November 13th at the Paris Expo
Porte de Versailles

The series Casta features in The Sunday Times Magazine.
Portfolio “Slavery? What slavery?”, 8 pages, 09.21.2014

Artist–in-residence program in Saint Laurent du Maroni in French Guiana, as part of the Cham project, from September to November 2014.
This residence was made possible through the support of La Tête dans les Images Association, General Council of French Guiana, DAC Guyane, Service Patrimoine de la ville de Saint Laurent du Maroni, Rencontres photographiques de Guyane.

The series Casta is published in Le  Monde M
Text and photo by Nicola Lo Calzo.
Portfolio La mémoire fait sécession, 10 pages, 09.19.2014

The series Casta is published in Granta 128, American Wild, 16 pages
Text and Photo by Nicola Lo Calzo.

The series Casta features in the New Yorker with a text by American writer Hilton Als. June 26,2014.

Insurgents of the Caribbean a monographic exhibition by Nicola Lo Calzo at Tropenmuseum, following the photographs acquisition of Ayiti and Mas series for the Museum collection Tropenmuseum
From May 23 to July 20, 2014
Linnaeusstraat 2, 1092 CK Amsterdam The Netherlands

Group exhibition Haiti, Effroi des oppresseurs, espoir des opprimés, Françoise Vergès curator

Memorial to the Abolition of Salvery
From May 10 to September 21, 2014
Quai de la Fosse – Passerelle Victor-Schoelcher - 44200 Nantes

The Cham project  features in GEO magazine
10 pages portoflio Das gefühl, mit geistern zu tanzen
Text by Von Peter Hamburger, April 2014

The series Ayiti features on the Aftenposten Magazine January 2014: Haitis slaverevolusjon

Interview This Is the World’s Oldest Human Population
Text by Jordan G. Teicher
Photo by Nicola Lo Calzo

Residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, as part of the Cham project, November 2013

The series Inside Niger features at LagosPhoto Festival, Nigeria.
LagosPhoto Festival, Fourth edition October 26 – November 16, 2013
Opening: October 26, 2013 , 6 PM Ocean View, Eko Hotel & Suites, Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos

The new series Ayiti features in exclusive in the french magazine Le Monde

Portoflio Liberté chérie Text by Benoit Hopquin
Photographs by Nicola Lo Calzo
July 27 2013 Issue

International colloquium of the Memorial of the Abolition of Slavery: an Architecture of Memory
June 7/8 2013 - Auditorium of the national school of architecture of Nantes
Scientific direction : Françoise Vergès

A selection of photogaphs from the ongoing project Cham are featured in the Italian magazine L’Espresso 
Text by Pietro Veronese
Photographs by Nicola Lo Calzo-Luzphoto

Nicola Lo Calzo is among the winners of the PDN Photo Annual 2013, in the Photo book category, with the book Inside Niger by Kehrer publisher.

Nicola Lo Calzo (curator Laura Serani) is the winner of the Biennale Giovani Monza 2013. His work will join the collection of the Pinacoteca Civica di Monza. The 2013 edition of the Biennale Giovani Monza will take place in the monument Serrone of the Villa Reale. For this event, thirty recent artists will be represented. In conjunction with the event, a jury determine the acquisitions of the city of Monza and the winner of Arte Città di Monza. Curators: Laura Serani, Lorenzo Canova, Filippo Maggia, Stefano Roffi, Teresa Meucci, Carl Kraus, Peter Weiermair

Mas is featured in Libération, Weekend May 11 2013 Issue
Frontpage + Portfolio : The price of Memory

The series Inside Niger features at the Jumièges Abbey, under the collective exhibition Water and Dreams.
Jean-Luc Monterosso & Dominique Goutard Curators
Jumieges Abbey, France
From April 27 to September 15, 2013

May 10, 2013, National Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery and their Abolition, Photography by Nicola Lo Calzo for the Government of France

Panel on "Contemporary Italian Photography: Some Insights"
Meeting with Nicola Lo Calzo (Photographer), Claudio Corrivetti (photographer and editor), Marco Barbon (photographer and theoretician of photography), Anna Di Prospero (photographer), Alessandro Imbriaco (photographer), Andrea Tonellotto (photographer) + slideshows
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 at 6 pm
The Percolateur, 67 rue Léon Bourgeois, 13001 Marseille

The Independent on Sunday
The New Review
Photo story Nicola Lo Calzo, Inside Niger
Article par Adam Jacques
17 mars 2013

VRIJ Nederland publish a 10 pagesphoto story on the new project Cham
De vloek en de handel Photo byNicola Lo Calzo, Text by Rudie Kagie
23  février 2013 - Luzphoto Agency

The first chapter of the Cham project runs in the French magazine Causette.
Photo story: Sur les traces de Cham, Text by Emilie Rouy – Photo Nicola Lo Calzo
31 Janvier 2013