Submission by Roberto Solomita:
"In January 1995, Italian media reported the disappearance of Harry Kipper, an English artist and cycle tourist. According to the reports, he was travelling across Friuli by bicycle, tracing the word “ART” through the route of his journey, when he vanished near the Slovenian border.
Local and national newspapers formulated hypotheses, gathered clues and issued appeals. The television programme Chi l’ha visto? also took an interest in the case.
It would later emerge that Harry Kipper had never existed: he was a fictional character invented by the Luther Blissett collective to test the permeability of the media system. This work does not reconstruct that event, but moves through Friuli as a territory of plausible ambiguity, where a story can be believed because it aligns with the forms it takes and the environment that sustains it..."
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Roberto Solomita — NOICE Magazine
"The disappearance of Harry Kipper" — Photography by Roberto Solomita, featured on NOICE Magazine.


















