Moon City
Mimi Mollica
Dewi Lewis
English
Softback
Book contained in a sleeve/special case
120 pages
300 × 277 mm
2025
ISBN 9781916915169
Moon City (2020–2025) is a photographic project created with a mobile phone and a telescope. From the vantage point of his East London balcony, Mimi Mollica aligned his lens on two opposing forces: the Moon’s ancient, celestial presence and the steel-and-glass monuments of London’s financial district. Over five years, these prolonged observations evolved into a sustained inquiry into power, fragility, and the shifting conditions of human existence.
Developed against the backdrop of pandemic lockdowns, war, genocide, and the expanding influence of political and financial oligarchies, Moon City contemplates the tense and often perilous dialogue between humanity and the systems that shape, govern, and endanger it. The project juxtaposes the Moon’s constancy, an enduring symbol of nature, time, and ancestral wisdom, with the restless verticality of capitalist ambition and its architecture of unchecked accumulation.
At its core, Moon City is a meditation on our contemporary condition: a world suspended between wonder and control, introspection and acceleration, the individual and the machine. Through its subtle distortions, aberrations, and lunar apparitions, the work invites viewers to pause, look upward, and consider the forces—celestial, structural, and ideological—that shape our lives, our cities, and our futures.
(Source: https://www.mimimollica.com/moon)
About the Artist
Mimi Mollica is an award winning photographer and editor, born in Palermo – Sicily in 1975. His photo essays deal with social issues and topics related to identity, environment, migration and macroscopic human transitions. Mimi chooses to work on long term projects which allow him to research explore and develop a subject in depth. As a result Mimi had travelled and photographed across the continents working on assignment and on his personal projects.
https://www.mimimollica.com
(Source: https://www.mimimollica.com/profile)
About the Publisher
In 2023 Dewi Lewis Publishing celebrated 30 years as an independent publisher. Founded in 1994, it is a partnership owned and run by husband and wife, Dewi Lewis and Caroline Warhurst. Best known as a photobook publisher the company has also published award winning fiction with titles shortlisted and longlisted for the Booker Prize. It has also ventured into Sports publishing with titles that have included the highly successful biography of José Mourinho, Made in Portugal.
https://www.dewilewis.com/pages/about-us
(Source: https://www.dewilewis.com/pages/about-us)
