Vast Distances

Vast Distances

An accordion bookwork with 19 pictures and text passages.

The book is a love story based on imaginary events and real locations. It is developed upon documentary photographic evidence that is edited to create an alternative history. The object of desire, John Lennon, is removed revealing only the sites and people of a time passed. It speaks of a possible simultaneous existence of lovers separated by time as well as spatial and existential distances.

10 pages printed on both sides
Process: inkjet
Edition 100
Conceived by Paula Saraste 2022
ISBN 978-952-94-6746-4
CounterImage Publications

All original images are documentary images only edited and not owned by Paula Saraste.

This book in included in the msdm collection water in the library and Special Collections, Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK, as well as private collections.
It was on view at the 12th Lisbon Photobook Fair and Frosty December Book Fair in Helsinki, 2022.