The Iceberg (2014-2015)
On the black markets of the dark web, the anonymous vaults of the Internet where nothing can be traced back to individual users, adverts for drugs are often illustrated using stock photos, yet some advertisers take their own photographs. Giorgio di Noto presents these exotic images, which are made by the advertisers themselves, and are predestined to delete themselves once they no longer have a function, like invisible objects. They are printed with special ink which only reveals the image when it is lit with ultraviolet light – the same light used to find traces of drugs. With this, Di Noto symbolises the anonymous and temporary nature of the photographs, which can’t be seen on the ordinary, above-board web.
