MUSSOLINI’S ROME

Ottawa, October 2018 –

Leslie Hossack’s new body of work, The Rome Photographs,
explores Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Rome.

A selection of photographs from this series will be published in 2019
in a book entitled Rebranded: Mussolini’s Rome 1922-1943.

The image below shows a detail on a large government building
constructed during Mussolini’s dictatorship. It implies a link between “Il Duce”
and the legendary founding of Rome and the ancient Roman Empire.

The Rome Photographs - Detail, State Registry Office (1936–1937), Via Luigi Petroselli, Rome 2017 by Leslie Hossack
Detail, State Registry Office (1936–1937), Via Luigi Petroselli, Rome 2017