"Almost every Sunday we took the Fiat Panda and drove into the mountains: we picknicked in the fields, skied, picked mushrooms and wild berries, and looked for wild animals."
Through fast-paced, rhythmic sequences of words and images that capture our attention like in a film, Martina Zaninelli's small but powerful book unfolds the story of a generation forced to seek a future outside Italy and the search for the reasons behind this choice. “The bubble, in which we grew up, began to crack. Probably because we stopped being children too,” continues Martina Zaninelli, reassuring us that the Fiat Panda now lives with her abroad.
The innovative power of the book lies in the interwoven narrative of contemporary photographs, archive images, ‘trouvées’ photos, phrases, written memories, slogans, and faces that emerge from the past to create a sort of storyboard, with a narrative process that would have appealed to the screenwriters of Italian comedy, from Cecchi d'Amico to Maccari to Scola.
Marco Bastianelli Award Jury motivation
YOUNG won the Marco Bastianelli Award 2022 for the best selfpublished book.
It was shortlisted for:
Charta Dummy Award, 2021
Kassel Dummy Award, 2021
Giostre Edizioni Book Award, 2023
It’s part of The PhotoBookMuseum collection.
YOUNG was published May 2025 by 89books.
Design by Paul Spehr & Martina Zaninelli
Write me a mail if you want to buy a copy // special edition (limited to 30 books) is available
the special edition includes 21 stickers