Silent Springs arrives in July 2026 from Loose Joints, a 208-page book by the Italian documentary photographers Michele Borzoni and Rocco Rorandelli, who have worked together since founding the TerraProject collective in 2006. Their subject is youth climate activism across Europe — the border-crossing networks of Extinction Rebellion, Ende Gelände, Code Rouge, Last Generation and Soulèvements de la Terre — and the non-violent direct action through which a generation has entered public life to argue for its own future.
The approach is deliberately unsensational. Borzoni and Rorandelli work in a restrained documentary register, and the sequences follow the arc of protest itself: planning, encampment, blockade, confrontation, dispersal. The book refuses to isolate the dramatic image. Instead it treats action as choreography — disciplined, rehearsed, sustained by argument — and sets photographs alongside a glossary that unpacks the vocabulary, tactics and ethical frameworks the movements use among themselves. The volume holds 127 colour and 81 monochrome plates at 210 by 295 mm.
The title takes up Rachel Carson’s, moved into the plural: not one silenced spring but many, and not only the losses Carson described. That shift frames the book’s central tension, between ecological breakdown, tightening state repression and the ordinary social bonds — friendships, shared camps, informal ecosystems — that keep movements going. Designed by Tommaso Tanini and edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon, Lewis Chaplin, Tanini and the photographers, it is conceived as a contemporary manifesto rather than a survey.
For a collector, the book’s interest lies less in novelty than in method. Borzoni and Rorandelli have built a critical investigative practice over two decades, and Silent Springs extends it to a subject that is still unfolding, in a section-sewn OTA-bound silkscreened softcover built to be read and handled. Its photographs and its glossary belong together; each asks what it means to stand one’s ground when institutions do not.
