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We are thrilled to share two important announcements for Mythography VI, our annual editorial project conceived by Exhibit Around and curated by Professor Enrico Medda, lecturer in Greek Literature at the University of Pisa. This year’s volume is dedicated to two of the most powerful and contrasting deities of the classical pantheon: Jupiter (Zeus) and Bacchus (Dionysus).
Mythography VI is honoured to welcome an exceptional guest: Christopher Morris, one of the most authoritative and influential voices in international photography over the last four decades.
Christopher Morris is one of the most celebrated photojournalists of the last four decades. A founding member of VII Photo Agency, he was on contract with TIME Magazine from 1990 to 2020, documenting close to 30 foreign conflicts and covering the U.S. Presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama as a member of the White House press pool. His work spans conflict, politics, power, and culture – from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the wars in Yugoslavia, Colombia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Somalia, Yemen and Panama, the first Gulf War, to the US invasion of Iraq, and the Arab Spring in Libya. Morris is the recipient of numerous major awards including the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the Olivier Rebbot Award, from the Overseas Press Club, several Infinity Awards from the International Center of Photography, The Visa d’ Or, France and a multitude of World Press Photo awards. He has published two books with Steidl “My America” was published in 2006, and “Americans” in 2011. Outside of Time magazine, he has worked for an extremely long list of global publications worldwide. In 2009 with Time Magazine leaving the White House coverage. Morris was approached by the Italian fashion magazine AMICA, for an assignment in New York, after the Editor in Chief was shown a copy of his My America monograph, which led to a four year collaboration, bringing his unique journalistic craft to Milano and Paris, where he was based until 2017, documenting fashion, government leaders and celebrities. In 2022 he started a long term grant on the environmental changes in his home state of Florida. Currently he has been working for the past years organizing his 40 year archives into what he likes to call a “Living Archive.”
Power Structures is the project Morris developed for Mythography VI: a triptych traversing three spheres — conflict, beauty, and politics — through a visual approach that is both radical and consistent. Three pillars, one question: who holds authority over human life, and what does it look like up close? None of these images announce themselves, none demand to be looked at. They wait — and it is precisely that patience that makes them unforgettable. The signature of a photographer who learned, across four decades and thirty conflicts, that restraint is its own kind of power.
The Power Structures project will be exhibited at Magazzino 26 as part of Trieste Photo Days 2026 (22–25 October) and included in the Mythography VI editorial volume.
It is with great pleasure that we present the official cover of the sixth volume. The image is signed by Egon M, and is drawn from his portfolio Noli me tangere — (Don’t) Touch Me: a choice that powerfully introduces the thematic tensions of this edition, suspended between the ordering dominion of Jupiter and the Dionysian dissolution of Bacchus. Congratulations to Egon M for capturing the essence of Mythography VI!
