LONDON, UK — 17 November 2025 — Giacomo Mantovani’s new project Peaceful Minds will be shown for the first time at the collective exhibition The Story Lens Talks, which opens to the public on Tuesday 25 November in central London.

The Story Lens Talks brings together ten photographers to explore the stories, creators and inspiration behind the storytelling. Please download the official press release here.

Giacomo will exhibit two pieces from Peaceful Minds, titled Peaceful Minds I and Peaceful Minds II.

The project is a reflection on finding peace of mind in a chaotic and noisy world. The two images, featuring models Carli Groot Bluemink and Heeyeon Parl, were originally shot on Ilford HP5 and hand-printed in the darkroom (Kentish Town) on fibre base paper (Ilford Multigrade FB Classic Glossy).

For the prints, the developer is splashed, sprayed and brushed over the exposed paper, creating a sense of chaos and noise around the still, peaceful subjects. This process makes each of the 15 final fibre prints unique within the edition.

Two prints have been scanned at high resolution and will be presented to the public as giclée prints on Ilford Gold Fibre Gloss paper, mounted on Dibond with a raised float and framed with AR70 glass (100 × 100 cm), in editions of 5 each.

This project once again represents Giacomo’s commitment to analogue photography as a testament to authenticity in a digital world dominated by AI. As with his earlier series LCKDN20, dust, grain and small imperfections are treated as the DNA of the medium, not flaws to be removed.