Silence is a Gift Gerco de Ruijter Melissa Shook (1939–2020) began a

Melissa Shook (1939–2020) began a series of daily self-portraits in her Lower East Side apartment that she would continue until August 1973

The slipcase is Gianni Versace signature wrap

from humor to an unsettling disquiet

Published by Rorhof

Silence is a Gift Gerco de Ruijter Melissa Shook (1939–2020) began aFirst edition of Silence is a Gift by Ciro Battiloro (2024) First impression Medium format hardback in new condition Text in French, English and Italian Published by Chose Commune About Rione Sanit (Naples), Santa Lucia (Cosenza), Torre del Greco. There are places in Southern Italy that carry scars of incurable wounds on the walls and on the flesh of its inhabitants. In those wounds lay the historical memory and the real face of people. Their names