Archivo Itaka

Between 1991 and 2012, photographer Gonzalo Olmos lived in London for academic and professional reasons. After 25 years of roaming the world, camera on shoulder, he gathered a photographic archive that reflects his regret feelings of staying emotionally distant from his family and his social and cultural roots. "Itaka Archive by Gonzalo Olmos is the product of the meticulous selection of photographic images that narrate a personal life story, continuously accompanied by feelings of rootedness, rootlessness, nostalgia and liminality. The latter understood as that state of ambiguity, in time and space, of transformation, of not really belonging anywhere, but of rather being on a threshold.". The book includes essays by Peruvian curator Carlo Trivelli, anthropologist Valeria Biffi and Gonzalo Olmos himself. It is an evocative visual journey into the past, a process of exploration very introspective in the construction of the identity and subjectivity of the photographer.