Luca Bendandi
XLegs
Talling an everyday obsession
ÂŤObsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answerÂť. Norman Mailer
Luca Bendandi
XLegs Talling an everyday obsession
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All the images in this book are ©Copyright of the photographer, Luca Bendandi Luca Bendandi http://cargocollective.com/brembo http://www.flickr.com/photos/brembo XLegs is a self-initiated project started in November 2010 Typeset in Calibre designed by Kris Sowersby for the Klim Type Foundry. Thanks for help and support to: Cesare Fabbri, Luca Gambi, Marcello Galvani, John Z. Komurki, Cristobal Pereira. Thanks also to the owners of the legs, in no particular order and in an uncomplete list: Sofia Vannini, Matteo Cossu, Yadira García, Sarah Perry, Daniel Rush, Ingrid Olmo, Laura Henning, Esther Schipper, Ariane Le Strat, Camilla Panebarco, Monica Olsson, Lula Curioca, Britta Thomsen, Sabrina Jager, Manuela Luciani, Tanbir Johal, Joanna Heygate, Keira Rathbone, Valentina Pasinato, Marita García, Tasha Arana, Luisa Behncke, and all the strangers that decided to cross their legs at a certain point of our lives.
Have you ever suddenly noticed something that was right under your nose all along? Something so visible that it was invisible? Xlegs started like that, a silent presence, unobserved, unaccounted for. Then it just wouldn’t stop: it was there again, and again, and again, and again.
Luca Bendandi is a self-taught photographer. He lives in Berlin and shoots expired film. He is trying hard not to, but once in a while he still notices people standing with their legs crossed.