The Bellini Project
Florence, 2022–2026
This is a book about a wine bar.
This is not a book about a wine bar.
It is a time capsule.
For four years, I photographed a particular moment in the life of Florence. The people who passed through it, the friendships, rituals, accidents and encounters that happened there.
Years from now, we will open these pages and be able to say:
I was there.
THE BOOK
The Bellini Project
Florence, 2022–2026
298 photographs
320 pages
20 × 28 cm
Hardback
Exposed sewn binding
Printed in Florence
Edition of 150 numbered copies
Copy Zero belongs to Bellini, where it will remain.
No further photographs will be made for The Bellini Project.
The work is complete.
Reserve your copy
Copies from the edition are available directly from the artist.
Launch price €220
Edition price €300
For availability, numbered copies, shipping or other enquiries, please get in touch.
POSTCARDS
12 Small collectible fragments from The Bellini Project were released into the wild on the night of the launch. They are yours if you can find them. Some are rarer than others.
I’D LIKE A PRINT.
A selection of photographs from The Bellini Project is available as signed, numbered fine-art prints.
If there is a photograph in the book that means something to you, please enquire.
Please enquire
I WAS THERE, BUT I’M NOT IN THE BOOK.
The edit was brutal. Of tens of thousands of photographs made over four years, only 298 made the book.
If you were there, you were part of it.
There may be another fragment of you in the archive.
Ask about the archive
Photographs by Tommaso George Sacchi
Edited by Kellie Riggs
Printed in Florence by ABC Tipografia.
© Tommaso George Sacchi
The Bellini Project is an independent work of documentary and artistic photography.
The project was conceived and developed as a documentary record of a particular moment in the life of Florence. The people depicted appear as an integral part of that documentary record and of the reality observed and photographed by the artist.
The photographs were not made as part of any advertising or commercial commission, and the individuals depicted were not engaged as models. Their presence does not imply participation in, promotion of, or endorsement of the project, or of any third-party product or service.
The photographs are published and presented as an integral part of a photographic work of a documentary, cultural and artistic nature.
The Bellini Project è un’opera indipendente di fotografia documentaria e artistica.
Il progetto nasce e si sviluppa come testimonianza documentaria di un particolare momento della vita di Firenze. Le persone ritratte vi compaiono in quanto parte integrante di tale testimonianza documentaria e della realtà osservata e fotografata dall’autore.
Le immagini non sono state realizzate nell’ambito di incarichi pubblicitari o commerciali e i soggetti raffigurati non sono stati ingaggiati in qualità di modelli. La loro presenza non implica alcuna forma di partecipazione, promozione o approvazione del progetto, né di prodotti o servizi di terzi.
Le fotografie sono pubblicate e presentate quali parte integrante di un’opera fotografica di carattere documentario, culturale e artistico.