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Accumulation as a Means of Survival

by David Walker

If photography “converts the whole world into a cemetery” and history is “an encounter with death” then what is it to archive? When asked what I do, I sometimes explain: I live in the past. It would be better to [...]

Ways of Nachleben

by Philipp Schwalb

How to leave traces? Leaves change places, color in the fall. They fall slowly on the forest floor. One is a form, two a couple, three a group, five a constellation, and after 28 leaves they form a film, a [...]

Eternal Currents

by Mélanie Scheiner

But the living all make the same mistake: they distinguish too sharply. Angels (it’s said) often don’t know whether they’re moving among the living or the dead. The eternal current sweeps all the ages with it through both kingdoms forever and drowns their voices [...]