Patrick Pound skirts the line between artist and pictorial treasure hunter: digging through online marketplaces, estate sales and flea markets, he has amassed more than 80,000 photographs, organised into 130 categories. L is for lonely, which follows his 2024 book Windows for Perimeter Editions, began as a drawer of prints in his studio and is now a book. It gathers photographs from defunct and dispersed cinema and newspaper archives, each containing the word lonely or loneliness, whether in a film title on the front of a picture or in the press agency text pasted on the back of a newspaper photograph, and every photograph is shown from both sides. Loneliness appears in animal and human form, in all kinds of people and places and in states of feeling, from a lonely lane where a kidnapping took place to a promotional still from The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and a newspaper image of a drone over a lonely desert. The cover is a black-and-white press photograph of rows of chairs in a lounge with a seated man.