BecauseWords have always been central to the practice of French artist Sophie Calle. In this project, Calle conceives of the internal thought processes behind her art making as stories to be told. It is with these storiesalongside the external stories of the moments preceding a click of a camera shutterthat Calle opens Because. The volume chronicles her reasons behind capturing particular moments in time, but the corresponding photos themselves are revealed

the reader is confronted with only the sequential narrative imagery of the book and thus must actively participate in creating its meaning

and new means for considering words and pictures today

Lack and Longing is the second chapter in TIME-MAZE

After more than a year of photographing everything from corner bodegas to the borough’s boundaries

Raised by Wolves (1995) and Open See (2009)

as well as—for the first time in a publication—“Museum of Innocence (The Madras Chapter)” and other series engaging with the meanings and materiality of archives

documenting the people

experimental practice

a few years later

Coincidentally

a collaboration with Pulitzer prize winning author David Mamet

This body of work explores relationships between gender