First presented in 2023 at the Museum Helmond in the Netherlands, as the first institutional survey of Webb’s work over the last thirty years, Errand and Epiphany comes to Verona with a new installation, conceived specifically for the spaces of the Earth Foundation.
The exhibition includes 78 photographs that reveal the originality of one of the pioneering second generation of photographers working with color, capable of transforming visual language into an emotional and vibrant narration. The title was suggested by the American writer Rebecca Solnit, who in one of her writings states “The magic of the road is the union between mission and epiphany”. For Webb, the mission is to collect fragments of stories of people in remote places on earth and the epiphany is the moment of revelation, in which banality turns into surprise.
With a background in history and literature, Alex Webb decided in his early twenties to devote himself to photography working as a photojournalist. After an initial exercise in black and white, which immortalized the life of a small town in South America, Webb began to shoot in color during his long journeys that took him across the world: Haiti, Mexico, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Turkey, the United States, are the countries in which he searches, with a hungry and curious gaze, for stories of everyday life, marginalization and abuse, to transform them into narratives with a magical tone.
