Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine - A Perpetual Season archival materials

Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine - A Perpetual Season archival materialsMACK 2014 A Perpetual Season lays a photographic trail through a dream like city, offering glimpses into a network of spaces that loom as silent witnesses to some forgotten order. Recurring concrete shapes and perplexed human beings punctuate the journey with a faintly elegiac tone which conjures up an inverted Arcadia, illuminated by the hopes and visions of a bygone era. This is fertile ground for a series of unsettling encounters which act as

But Michael Dalton

an ashtray

But I felt overwhelmed by the realities around me

Soth has interspersed a number of love letters from the subjects he photographed

The book includes photographs taken in 1970-2000

as well as an extensive essay by the renowned photography historian David Chandler

His working style was stimulated by his experiences with moving images

the first wave of political opposition protests led by the “Kefaya” (Enough) movement

‘progressive ideas would always be upheld

foreseeing a world of precarious inhabitation of ideas

in his hometown of Kétou in Benin

gathering dusky light for the duration of the night