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MARITIME MUSEUM OF FINLAND - MERIKESKUS VELLAMO - KOTKA, FINLAND
Exhibition from 13th November 2008 to 31th May 2009

In winter the Baltic Sea turns itself into ice-pack, a thick shell of ice blocks Finland 's coasts and harbours; life follows a different rhythm, ships and men must attune to that.
During three winters, Jacopo Brancati explored this maritime world, sharing each day the life of seafaring people at work under the severe hyper boreal climatic conditions.
The author, just like any other member of the pilotage service, boarded ships in the Finnish ports, in the open sea and on the sea-pack; from there he shifted his gaze on the very particular world of the men and women he met travelling from the Gulf of Finland to the Gulf of Bothnia, to witness of their work and life.

« Jäinen matka Suomeen » is a creation of Infine Arts , realized for the Suomen Merimuseo ( Finnish Maritime Museum ) and based upon the original work of Jacopo Brancati.
The exhibition, consisting of sixty black and white photographs, develops through four steps. In the first three sections we follow the author's exploration of different geographical areas: the Gulf of Finland, the Archipelago Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia. The fourth and last section, “Memories”, is a touching, respectful homage to the traditions and to the intimate world of Finnish seafaring people.

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"Jäinen matka Suomeen" at Merikeskus Vellamo - November 2008

Juha Tulimaa, Erik Tirkkonen, Outi Kivimäki and Jacopo Brancati at the Maritime Museum of Finland

STAZIONE MARITTIMA - NAPLES, ITALY
Exhibition from 30th September 2009 to 24th October 2009

GALATA MUSEO DEL MARE - GENOA, ITALY
Exhibition and conference 09th June to 31th August 2007

"Uomini e navi del porto di Genova"
Italy, 2004 - Galata Museo del Mare

An ethnographic study about men and ships in one of the most important Mediterranean harbours, it tells how tightly sea and shore are bound to each other, revealing the unexpected, exceptional face of everyday harbour life

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"Saletta dell'Arte" - Galata Museo del Mare

"Un fotografo a bordo" - Conference at Galata Museo del Mare

From left to right:

Stefano Monti-Bragadin - University of Genoa
Jacopo Brancati - Infine Arts
Pierangelo Campodonico - Galata Museo del Mare
Oreste Bozzo - Chief Pilot Genova Harbour Pilots

“Eric Newby and the Last Grain Race”

For this exhibition he organized the photographic section based on the classic of maritime literature “The Last Grain Race” (1954) and “Learning the Ropes. An apprentice on the Last of the Windjammers” by the English writer Eric Newby. This was the first exhibition in France focusing on Eric Newby as a photographer

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Eric Newby and Jacopo Brancati at Musée Portuaire - April 2005

Eric Newby - "The Last Grain Race" on the Finnish barque Moshulu 1937-38 (All right reserved Eric Newby)

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“Pilote à bord! Hommes et navires du port de Gênes”

Genoa is one of the major harbours of the Mediterranean Sea . Stretching over a 9 maritime miles long coastal strip, it consists of three main sites and offers different kinds of terminals – passengers, oil, dry and wet bulk, containers.

Active 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, no matter what weather conditions are, pilots, tugboats and boatmen handle some 20.000 ships per year. They are experienced professionals who blend a great tradition with technical knowledge and skills, indispensable for the security of men, cargoes, ships and port facilities.

This reportage, result of a year's work, reveals the mechanisms of the perfect port machinery by analyzing the job of the pilots and of their collaborators, beating to the rhythm of their work, day and night, under all weather conditions

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LILLE 2004, European Capital of Culture - Les Journées Européennes du Patrimoine

“La cité aux visages de pierre”
Italy , 2002 - Institut Culturel Italien – Italian Embassy of Lille , France

A study on funerary sculpture of Genoa Monumental Cemetery.
The depiction of ideals and fashions of Italian society during the late 19th century is the starting point for an intimate meditation on death and life.
The sense of an ambiguous, mesmerizing flow of reality into imagination is enhanced by the choice of colour pictures

"Grief engenders beauty, death engenders life through immortalizing recollection and portraiture.
In the photographs of Jacopo Brancati death is a seducer,
a hypnotizer, it has an inexorable grasp or a gentle touch: but it always brings along rest and forgetfulness.
The interplay of glances and gestures, dances and whispers, breathings and voices are captured stealthily, lest the spell be broken and the pageant stops"

Sonia Olcese

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