
Mirage Hotel investigates the transience of the gaze — a condition intrinsic to photography itself. Here, photography becomes a device for measuring impermanence: the image does not aim to document reality, but to register its instability. What remains is not certainty, but a residual trace.
Photographs and texts by Francesco Villa
Editing by Altana
Design by Francesco Villa
Arabic Lettering by Samer Bou Saleh
Translations by Rabii Brahim, Sofia Schartner
12x16 cm, 128 pages,
Softcover, Open Spine binding, Hotfoiled dust jacket
Printed in 600 copies
ISBN 979-12-812-3216-7
Altana was born in 2018 in Venice after the encounter between Francesco Paleari, Elia Pinna and Francesco Villa. It’s meant to be a place for conversations and exchange around photography, genuinely dedicated to authorial research and care for editorial projects. Altana refuses to be labeled but rather prefers the dynamism of an evolving hybrid studio.
Altana is not a publisher, it is not a physical place and either a concept. Altana is a flying carpet made of wood from which you can enjoy a new perspective through photography.
You can find our publications here: Micamera, Milano / Dashwood, New York / Librairie du Palais, Arles / Le Bal, Paris / Le Monte-en-l’air, Paris / Actes Sud, Arles / Libraire Sans Titre, Paris / Cahier Central, Paris / Choisi, Lugano / Leporello, Roma / Tipi, Brussels / Corraini 121+, Milano / Studio Faganel, Gorizia