Clue: Cold - An Exhibition of Historical Forensic Photography

Solve your own cold case with Clue:Cold - a photographic exhibition from an unknown Italian forensic photographer in the early 20th century, printed by Stefano Amoretti and Mino Tristovskij.

Clue:Cold - An Exhibition of Historical Forensic Photography.

At the beginning of the 20th Century, in Italy, a criminologist captured his clues through his photographic works. Discovered almost 100 years later in an unmarked box with rubbish, the pictures displayed are just a small selection of a vast collection - and just the first of many mysterys in store.

Through decontextualized historical documents, Clue:Cold offers the visitor the opportunity to uncover and unfold their own fictional case. The photographs cover crime scenes, locations, clues and witnesses, drawn from the (at the time) new dicipline of forensic photography, theorized in France by Alphonse Bertillon.

Avoiding the unknown photographers raw and vivid approach to be contaminated by contemporary digital technology, the enlarged reproductions of the original photographic plates have been expertly printed by Stefano Amoretti and Mino Tristovskij, using a traditional emulsion technique - which nowadays is considered an alternative form of photography.

While the answers to the real cases have been lost over the course of time, questions can still be raised from the haunting images.

An evening with Clue:Cold is your chance to lead the metalanguage of an imaginary crime of your choosing, through the art of analogue photography.

Supported by the London Analogue Festival