Ferdinando Scianna‘s latest exhibition and publication, Cose, reveals his unique approach to documenting the world-at-large. The Magnum photographer doesn’t stop at taking images, rather he embodies many roles as an anthropologist, writer, and journalist.

The Santa Giulia Museum, Brescia, is holding an exhibition dedicated to the Italian photographer. Over eighty images of ‘impossible’ objects will be on display, alongside ten objects from Scianna’s personal trove. From the Polsi votive waxes to Bolivian Ekeki and Ocumichu earthenware, the exhibition hopes to give insight into the photographer’s practice, and his propensity to collect objects weighted with histories.

“Things tell, they tell us, like photographs,” writes Scianna. Acting as a sort of private diary, Cose brings together many things that try to tell the meaning, the shape, the emotions, that the world offers, and evoke places and sensations far away in time and space.