Anema e Core

Nine photographers, nine film perspectives, telling not the match itself but the world around it. Faces, walls, the smallest gestures of a people on fire. “We spotted nine photographers who were heading to Naples for the title match. Very quickly, we knew we had to turn it into a book,” says Quentin Eveno.

A book born in the streets

Five Italians, four French. All long-time members of the Analog Football community. Their mission: to tell the story of Naples without going through the players. To show what television will never capture. Three hundred shots collected, sorted, felt.

One hundred and eighty selected. Not one too many: “We didn’t want a collector’s item, but a living object. Something that allows our community to relive that moment.”

The book unfolds like a four-part composition: before the match, tension in the eyes; during, the stadium’s fervor, flashes cutting through faces; after, the city ignites—joy, sweat, tears; and finally, the parade, orgiastic and collective, where all of Naples becomes a festive stage.

“Charles (Brochet) shot with flash inside the stadium. There was something very organic, raw, almost animal. That’s what we wanted to show: the living matter of football.”

A gesture, not a product

Anema e Core is not just another football book. It’s a statement about rarity, beauty, and those moments that can’t easily be recreated.

“My dream would be to change where football books are sold. To sell them in photo labs. At the local film photography shop. To connect the analog community with football,” explains Quentin.

This idea of a local, artisanal economy is part of Analog Football’s DNA. Turning images into a connection, not a product. Each book becomes a story that moves from hand to hand.

The book is called Anema e Core “soul and heart” like the cult song by Neapolitan singer Pino Daniele, an icon of a city where everything is sung, even pain. A title that resonates like a manifesto: sincere, handcrafted, rooted in the flesh of reality.

Printed in 80 copies and sold only in Naples, the book won’t travel any further. An object designed to stay where it was experienced, to exist where it was lived. “It’s not about business. We wanted it to make sense locally—and for the people of Naples to see themselves in it.”

Slow football

Dans la ville de Maradona, tout est mythe, tout est intensité. Et l’argentique, avec ses accidents et son grain semble être le seul langage capable d’en rendre la vérité. Ni reportage, ni fanzine. Anema e Core est une façon de dire : le football mérite encore qu’on le regarde lentement.