The Light Observer
Independent publishing house founded by artist Eleonora Paciullo and designer Hugo Berger
The Light Observer operates at the intersection of rigor and experimentation — combining a minimalist approach to typography and the development of functional, concept-driven frameworks with an openness to artistic content and a critical engagement with the form of the book as object.
Editorial projects are developed in close collaboration with the artist, fully embracing the specific nature of the content and extending the continuity of their artistic practice.
New Book
SO MANY REAL THINGS
Nathalie Du Pasquier
On show at Paris Photo
from 13 to 16 November, 2025
BIANCO ORDINARIO by Hélène Bellenger
“Bianco Ordinario resembles an archaeology of imagination, where our representation of marble and the famed Carrara quarries, exploited for 2,000 years, moves away from cultural myths to embrace a critical poetry of the Anthropocene. Photography here tests its physical limits, much like the industrial extraction of marble powders, which now depletes the site and calls for a transformation of our idealized vision of marble.“
Michel Poivert
Box with screen-printed image
Paperback with flap, Swiss binding, 118 pages, Offset printing in Italy
Leaflet with texts from Michel Poivert, Hélène Soumaré and Rica Cerbarano
FR, IT and ENG
1st Edition, January 2025
Photograph by Daniel SalemiLandscape(s)
What is a landscape, if not a mirror of our attention?
In this eighth issue of The Light Observer, we turn our gaze toward Landscape(s) — not as static scenery, but as a shifting field of relations, memory, and perception. The artists and works gathered here traverse geographies both external and internal, questioning how we inhabit the visible world and how it, in turn, inhabits us.
Landscape(s)
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Landscape(s) - Issue 08 -
Selected Stories:
⬑ Laida Lertxundi, “We Had the Experience But Missed the Meaning”, exhibition at mercred/samed/ curated by The Light Observer
Henni Alftan
“I guess my paintings look like how I would describe things, rather than how they are.”
> Read the interview
⬑ Laida Lertxundi
Discover the series in our ISSUE 6
Daniel Canogar
“The found technologies become reactivated by the animations and light that emerge from the screens, revealing the spirit these devices once had when they were fully operational”
> Read the interview
⬑ Irene Fenara
Discover the series in our ISSUE 4
⬑ Sheung Yiu
Discover the series in our ISSUE 4
⬑ Arguiñe Escandón & Yann Gross - AYA
Read their interview in our ISSUE 3
Nico Krijno
“It’s an electro-bricolage process that’s very difficult to tease apart: it’s constantly shifting like a conversation that never stops.”
> Read the interview
⬑ Jeff Keen by Stella Starr
Discover the series in our ISSUE 6
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Ephemeral Nature
Hexton Gallery is making available an extensive selection of Christo’s original drawings, collages, and wrapped objects from their private collection, many of which have never been shown to the public until now.
> Read the article
⬑ Cecilia Del Gatto
Discover the series in our ISSUE 5
Tracy Fullerton
“We are playing with light in many different ways that leaves the player uncertain about where and when they are.”
> Read the interview
Adrien Lucca
“I’m drawn to the idea of progression: while time passes something is happening. This is how I compose”
> Read the interview
Anthony McCall
“I work with light in very specific ways, causing it, paradoxically, to appear solid”
> Read the interview
⬑ Olafur Eliasson
Discover the article in our ISSUE 2
⬑ Alex Foxton
Read his interview in our ISSUE 2
Ann Veronica Janssens
“I try to make the material unstable, fluid, similar to experiences and situations.”
> Read the interview
⬑ Guillaume Simoneau
Discover the article in our ISSUE 1
Paul Rousteau
“These complex and intense emotions are difficult to translate visually. That’s why I experiment a lot.”
> Read the interview
“We can derive from light so much emotion, so much understanding and knowledge that the real importance of light is worthy to think about a lot”
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