SonataDo you know the land where lemons trees bloom, Where oranges glow like gold in a dark leafy gloom Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1796 SONATA is an extensive body of photographic work made by Aaron Schuman in Italy over the past four years. Rather than attempting to capture and convey an objective reality, these images are consciously filtered through the many ideas, fascinations, and fantasies associated with the country and what it has represented in

and semiotics on his rich and layered oeuvre

The paper is embedded with seeds

Throughout the book

a “teenager of the world” unaware of its strengths

Jennifer Greenhill

DIY-aesthetic creations function as sketchbook

a city that

fresh eyes

bars and artist lofts--an entirely personal Paris

This is a story in three parts

using cutouts from rare childhood photos of himself

pointing towards collective histories and Black ancestral practices