Tunisi, 8.6.2013 (Tunisia, 2013)
In his series Tunisi, 8.6.2013 the young Italian photographer Giorgio Di Noto investigates the way in which photos were made and circulated in the countries of the Arab Spring. Using the background lighting of the screens of mobile phones and smartphones, Di Noto projected the photos that their owners had made with them onto photo paper. He invited the phone’s owners through social media to come to a provisional darkroom in Tunis for that purpose. In this way he recorded what pictures the participants had made, as permanent evidence of the important role of digital communication and distribution channels in the uprising in Tunisia.
