
As Long as the Sun Lasts
- Publisher
- Void
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 978-618-5479-45-9
- Specifications
- Hardcover with French folds
17,1 x 24,4 cm
144 pages
750 copies
Design by João Linneu, Myrto Steirou
Illustration by Joselito Verschaeve
Second monograph
As Long as the Sun Lasts' follows Joselito Verschaeve's characteristic working process: building an ever-growing archive of photographs from daily encounters, sketching ideas, and drawing from this pool of images to shape a new story. For this book, the photographs conjure a world that feels close to its ending. They pulse with a soft melancholy, as if the light itself were counting down. The title borrows from Italo Calvino's 'Cosmicomics', where the sun nears its death and humanity prepares for its own. Yet, in Calvino's story, the end isn't only tragedy—it is also clarity, a strange peace that comes from recognising life's transience. Verschaeve's work holds the same duality: a tension between continuation and collapse, optimism and extinction, beauty and the certainty it won't last. This oscillation between drive and doubt shapes every page of the book, and resonates with our present moment—when the theme of the world coming to an end feels less like fiction. 'As Long As The Sun Lasts' shows a narrative where history keeps repeating itself, told through images of nature, ruins, and human interventions. While being a fictional story, it still references the Anthropocene, a time when our actions leave deep marks on the world. The work stays close to these themes of repetition, dystopian outcomes, and literary fiction, but the second half of the book takes on a more research-based, investigative approach. Blending research with poetic imagery, blurring fiction and reality, this title aims to reflect this duality.