A Postcard for Floyd (Bilingual edition)

George Floyd is an African American who died during his arrest on 25 May 2020 when a policeman suffocated him by pressing his knee onto Floyds neck for nine minutes to immobilize him. I cant breathe... Seeing those images, Giangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadula instinctively shot a candle deprived of its flame in a sequence of nine photographs, one for each of the nine minutes of the tragedy.

With the hope of generating a collective reflection on the problem, the author sent postcards of one of these images, asking for a response with whatever sentence, image or idea may have been suggested by their emotions. The reaction was surprising, with more than 300 responses from well-known cultural figures, artists and creatives, as well as the general public. Their postcards were full of emotions, thoughts, personal reflections, drawings, photographs and even musical compositions and videos, all published in this book.

Among the many who participated are photographers Oliviero Toscani, Maurizio Galimberti, and Francesco Cito; actors Cristiana Capotondi, and Giuseppe Cederna; musicians Giuliano Sangiorgi (Negramaro), Max Casacci (Subsonica), and Andy (Bluvertigo); journalists Carlo Verdelli and Michele Buono; curators Denis Curti, Fortunato DAmico and Roberto Mutti; writer Maurizio De Giovanni; artists Ercole Pignatelli, Yuval Avital, and Max Marra; rapper Amir Issa and writer Flycat; architects Italo and Margherita Rota and Massimo Roj; conductor Riccardo Chailly, and illustrators Emilio Giannelli, Beppe Giacobbe, and Sandro Fabbri.