On Kråkerøy, in southern Norway, a day begins outdoors and ends behind a window. Between the Norwegian idea of friluftsliv and the quiet of cabin life lies something less visible: a way of moving between nature and shelter without treating them as separate worlds.
At Abrehot Library in Addis Ababa, wisdom is written into the architecture. Seven monumental columns carry the idea across eighteen languages, while glass, concrete, people and reflections make the building readable before anyone steps inside.
In Mazunte, Oaxaca, Itínera began with a piece of land, a few hundred dollars, used tires, and more determination than money. Julia Filippo tells how building a theater also meant learning how to live alongside the community around it.
In Cesenatico, the Museo della Marineria preserves boats, sails, tools, and the knowledge carried by them. But its deeper work concerns something less tangible: helping a community recognize the relationship with the sea that made it what it is.
Leonard Cohen once wrote a severe little lesson about poetry; nearly fifty years later, some of its simplest instructions describe the kind of storytelling we try to practice at "A Bag of Stories": observe carefully, resist the flourish, respect the material, and leave enough room for the reader.
Ten minutes of improvised dance at BASE Milano. A week later, the photographs opened a question about calling, freedom, and the lives we make together.
Two months in Mauritania, 200 photographs, and a wooden box designed to hold the exhibition. Bringing Camp Erech to Milan still required replacement panels, a trip for nails, and a long night of work.
Burkinabè photographer Warren Sare joins "A Bag of Stories" to share a vision shaped by memory, dialogue, resistance, and social justice. This essay opens a new series from Burkina Faso, rooted in the experience of " Je Suis la Rue."
In a former seventeenth-century church in Brescia, Anna Renzi Brivio makes garments by beginning where fashion often ends: with a person, a body, and the time required to understand both.
