ANSA's annual photo book, PhotoAnsa 2023, gives sense to the year that has passed, the president of Italy's top news agency, Giulio Anselmi, said at its presentation at Rome's MAXXI art museum Monday.
"This (event presenting) ANSA's photo book is a ritual for us, which we have become very proud of," he said.
"The book seeks to lend meaning to the past year, by choosing the events that have marked it," he said.
"This year, too, we have put together many items of a varying flavour. A paper book seems something old, old-fashioned, but we believe that it is very effective.
"In physics and economics we speak of the flight of the bumble bee to refer to an insect that isn't supposed to fly because of its size, and yet flies.
"Our book is something like that.
"A book with great photos, which are an enlargement of things that happened, and strike with their immediate effectiveness." Anselmi recalled that the year that has gone by "has been a tragic year, full of pain starting with two wars" and that "the pleasant things that happened are sadly quite few", but nonetheless the book intends to give a complete picture because "life goes on and people want it to go on".
Premier Giorgia Meloni took part in the presentation via videolink, and energy giant Enel is a partner.
Among those present were the president of the Italian tennis federation, Angelo Binaghi, Professor Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, international relations lecturer at Milan's Cattolica University and essayist, and the actress Romana Maggiora Vergano, who in Paola Cortellesi's hit period domestic violence drama 'C'è ancora domani' (There's Still Tomorrow) plays the protagonist's daughter.
Among the subjects of the snaps were the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the femicide epidemic, the Cutro migrant disaster, the Emilian floods, the sporting victories of Napoli, the Ryder Cup and Jannik Sinner in the Davis Cup, film phenomena like Barbenheimer and C'è' Ancora Domani, and the deaths of Silvio Berlusconi and Giorgio Napolitano.
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