Giovanna Silva

For the past three years, photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) has meandered through New York City, camera in hand, collecting photographs in her own time. She often walked more than 10 miles a day, taking in as much as she could or sometimes passing by the same site again and again. As a collection of more than 700 images, Days Without Number is ostensibly organized as a calendar, but follows no sense of time or chronology. Ultimately, it is a puzzle of images: populated by the city’s recognizable landmarks but not a travelogue; imbued with the city’s pedestrian spirit but not a portrait of its denizens. Alongside this surprising series is an essay by New York–based writer Sasha Frere-Jones, a member of the New Yorker staff for 10 years and now a cultural contributor for several newspapers and magazines.

This book was published in conjunction with Head Hi

Italian photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) highlights the decorative forms that populate the chromatic landscape of Naples. The result is part anthropological and costume study, part photographic research on urban architectures and part artistic reflection on a historical event.

Giovanna Silva (born 1980) is an Italian photographer known for her architectural photography documenting specific cities around the world, especially within Italy. This volume chronicles Genoa and its surrounding areas as part of a public initiative to promote art about the city.

Italian photographer and publisher Giovanna Silva (born 1980), founder of the publishing house Humboldt Books, paints a sinuous, compulsive, dizzying and poetic portrait of Milan through several hundred detailed photos of the city’s modern and contemporary building facades.

In 2018, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) photographed and collected archival documents from the infamous American embassy in the capital of the Islamic Republic. Here, architect and educator Hamed Khosravi contributes an essay on social movements and architecture.

On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge marched on Phnom Penh led, among others, by Brother Number One, Pol Pot (real name Saloth Sar). As the city's inhabitants tried to celebrate as best they could Cambodian new year, which falls between 15 and 17 April, on the evening of April 16 fireworks and firecrackers exploded against the background of the darkening sky together with the firing of weapons. The number of dead in the three and a half years of Pol Pot's rule will never be established with precision. With the fall of the Shianouk regime its leading architect also disappeared. Vann Molyvann rebuilt the country taking his inspiration from the temples of Angkor Wat. The Olympic stadium is one of the country's prominent modern buildings. It is said that officials of the Lon Nol government were gathered here to be executed during the revolution. This book by Giovanna Silva and Peter Fröeberg Idling retraces the history of Cambodia, creating a fictional and personal story that looks at the country through the eyes of the two authors.

In 2010, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) was asked to photograph a school in Afghanistan. She lived there for two weeks in close contact with soldiers, traveling with them and seeing the country from their standpoint. The book recreates this narrative, moving from dim interiors to open horizons.

Using archival images and new photographs taken in locations ranging from Benghazi to Tripoli, in this publication Italian photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) documents the structures built by Muammar al-Gaddafi’s regime that were demolished during the 2011 revolution.