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Shipwreck of Dreams

(2019-2024)
“People would spend days and nights at the lake margins, longing to see the magical ship and have their desires met”, a forgotten legend once told.

‘Shipwreck of Dreams’ departs on the human journey for a better place by retelling an unknown ancient myth about a wish-granting boat on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The project follows the traces of a self-organised school that roams in Zurich searching for a place and listens to the wisdom shared by the school’s interconnected multiple voices that meet at the crossroads of European migration policies. Together, through collaborative narrative portraits, they tell stories about what to consider home.

*The project is part of the ongoing collection of works entitled La memoria es un pantano (Memory is a Swamp). These documentary works are based on research and the revisiting of myths, local stories, and oral traditions, aiming to embrace and retell these narratives in a changing contemporary world. The various projects seek to open spaces for collaboration, reframing perspectives and experimenting myth-unfused narratives.
©Emilio Nasser

Buscando al Perro Familiar

(2018-ongoing)
The project ‘Buscando al Perro Familiar’ delves deep into the legend of the ‘Perro Familiar’, which dates back to the beginnings of Spanish colonisation in Latin America. This story is about a mysterious creature that was used by the large landowners of the sugar industry to control their workers and increase their profits. The legend paints a dark chapter in the region’s history and still has an impact on the community today.

The project aims to create new interpretations of the legend through collaborative interventions in the community of Santa Ana in Tucumán, Argentina and to develop different narratives that links historical contexts, memories and images. Through a cross-media lens, with focus on documentary photography and community collaboration. ‘Buscando al Perro Familiar’ aims to help integrate oral narratives into a contemporary context and encourage collaboration with and within local communities.

*The project is part of the ongoing collection of works entitled La memoria es un pantano (Memory is a Swamp). These documentary works are based on research and the revisiting of myths, local stories, and oral traditions, aiming to embrace and retell these narratives in a changing contemporary world. The various projects seek to open spaces for collaboration, reframing perspectives and experimenting myth-unfused narratives.
©Emilio Nasser

La Cornuda de Tlacotalpan

(2016)
“Times have changed and the story of La Cornuda de Tlacotalpan has been disappearing. People say that when you don’t believe in something, it ceases to exist”, from an informal chat in a bar in Tlacotalpan town.

The central idea of the project on the legend of La Cornuda de Tlacotalpan was to re-imagine the story in the face of its possible disappearance: involving the community of Tlacotalpan in Mexico and its memory, to re-invent the story through a collective, playful, and participatory re-construction.

*The project is part of the ongoing collection of works entitled La memoria es un pantano (Memory is a Swamp). These documentary works are based on research and the revisiting of myths, local stories, and oral traditions, aiming to embrace and retell these narratives in a changing contemporary world. The various projects seek to open spaces for collaboration, reframing perspectives and experimenting myth-unfused narratives.
©Emilio Nasser

Game Over

(2012-2018)
The end of the world was declared to take place on December 21, 2012. Infinite prophets, visionaries, seers, fortune tellers, multiple apocalypses, meteor showers, solar storms, technological collapse, Mayan prophecies, the reversal of the magnetic poles, many versions, second, third parts and more.
In the universal history of the end of the world, in 2012 all those endings coexisted in the same ecosystem.

So, what the fuck happened?

On Friday, December 21, 2012 in Isla del Sol, Bolivia at four thousand meters above sea level, the Pachakuti was celebrated, which with these words declared: “closing the cycle of no-time and revising the new cycle; time of balance and harmony for Mother Earth.”
So there I went. If the end came, it would find me in a very high place. On the way I built a documentary agency. The intention was to arrive, look and be where I wanted to be.

Everything was written later.

About the End of the World

During the activation and review of my photographic archive. I found a documentary/essay photo work that never was published. It’s about one of the last finals of the world in the summer solstice of December 21-2012, in Isla del Sol, Bolivia.

On the way to try to know more about what happened at the end of the world in 2012 in the rest of the world. Searching on the internet as a border, the history of the end of the world turned into a collection of hundreds of pictures on the research process.

With my own photographic file and the material that was collected from the internet. All together expanded were the triggers for the realisation of a photobook project.

In times of global warming, pandemics, fake news, and many things more it has broken the paradigm balance between reality and fictionality.  Game Over proposes you, with a critical and playful look, to rethink everything that surrounds you.
©Emilio Nasser

Emilio Nasser

Emilio Nasser is a photographer based in Switzerland and Argentina. His work weaves local histories, oral traditions, and collective memory, combining research and collaboration to experiment with myth-based narratives, documentary forms and counter-stories. Emilio’s projects emphasise the dynamic interplay between community, imagination, and the power of shared stories, fostering dialogue and active participation.

Trained in photography at Spilimbergo School of Applied Arts in Argentina, he has since engaged with interdisciplinary learning forms in both visual arts and social science. Alongside this path, Emilio has been a self-taught cook practitioner, working and living across various countries. As co-editor of Brote, a fanzine focused on food-related themes, he explore the intersection of food and visual storytelling.

Recently, Emilio’s practice has received recognition and support from the  Swiss Art Council Pro Helvetia, Aarguaer Kuratorium in Switzerland and the Collection Award from Duke University’s Archive of Documentary Arts. His work has been exhibited, with solo shows at Photoforum Pasquart and Duke University, and featured in festivals across Europe and Latin America.

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Switzerland, Argentina,

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Awards

  • 2024Shortlisted in Photo Vogue Latin America Panorama.
  • Aagauer Kuratorium Freiraum
  • 2022Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award. Duke University U.S
  • 2019Fellowship from National Fund of Arts, Argentina
  • 2018Finalist in Encontros Da imagen-Emergentes International Photography Award, Portugal.
  • 2017Fellowship from National Fund of Arts, Argentina.

Exhibitions

  • 2024Solo exhibition at Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne Switzerland.
  • Solo exhibition at Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery, Duke University U.S.
  • Featured exhibition at Castelonuovo Photography Festival. Rome, Italy.
  • 2023Featured exhibition at Phmuseum Days. Bologna, Italy.
  • Featured exhibition at International Festival San José Foto, Uruguay.
  • Collective exhibition at Musee d'art de Pully, Switzerland.
  • 2021Collective exhibition at Phmuseum Days Bologna, Italy.
  • 2018Featured exhibition at Versazca Foto Festival ‘The inner forest’. Ticino, Switzerland.
  • Featured exhibition at Valongo Festival da Imagen. Sao Pablo, Brasil.
  • Featured exhibition at Encontros da Imagen. Museo Alberto Sampaio, Portugal.
  • 2016Featured exhibition at 20Fotógrafos Tlacotalpan, Mexico.
  • 2015Featured exhibition at PHEspaña-Transatlantica Casa America Madrid, Spain.

Publications

  • 2024'Shipwreck of Dreams' – Self-published newspaper/catalog supported by Photoforum Pasquart
  • 2022'Brote 01' – Self-published fanzine supported by Brote, a collective focusing on food issues. Argentina
  • 'La Cornuda de Tlacotalpan' – Self-published photobook. Limited edition, printed in Switzerland
  • 2021'Siesta' – Self-published photobook. Limited edition, printed in Italy
  • 2018'Game Over' – Self-published photobook. Printed in Spain