The publication is inspired by the Voyager Golden Records, an archive established in 1977 and sent out into space as a coded record, intended as a greeting to extraterrestrial life and/or our future descendants. The record was placed on board the Voyager spacecraft and is currently orbiting in space, not heading toward any particular star, but estimated to pass within 1.6 light-years of the star Gliese 445, currently in the constellation Camelopardalis, in about 40,000 years. The project was directed by NASA in collaboration with the astronomer and writer Carl Sagan and his team. This archive contains a choice of sounds, music, images and greetings in 54 different languages and a speech from the president of USA at that time, Jimmy Carter. All intended to represent the diversity of life and culture on Earth. In addition to this, 118 photographs where selected to fill in the gaps of unique information about our civilization and who we are that the other aspects could not. The publication aims to create an anthology that can tell a story about who we are / were and what we want to leave behind us from an contemporary photographic perspective, with the material in The Voyager Golden Records as a backdrop.

Artist: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Vlad Albu, Morten Andenæs, Marwa Arsanios, Bjarne Bare, Lucas Blalock, Bogdan Bordeianu, Brud, Alejandro Cartagena, Francesca Catastini, Yakov Chernikhov, Federico Ciamei, Anne Collier, Marianna Dellekamp, Susan Derges, Carolyn Drake, Doug Dubois, Ingrid Eggen, Wendy Ewald, David Fathi, Adam Fuss, Veronica Gerber Bicecci, Espen Gleditsch, Adam Golfer, Andrew Hammerand, Annika von Hausswolff, Preben Holst, Pieter Hugo, Eliza Hutchison, Jetmir Idrizi, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Adam Jeppesen, Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Hajime Kimura, Godwin Koay, Katrin Koenning, Nico Krebs, Anouk Kruithof, Chen Kun Hui, Vik Lai, Mårten Lange, Alejandra Laviada, Christina Leithe Hansen, Matt Lipps, Sandrine Lopez, Giulia Mangione, Yamamoto Masao, Denes Miklosi, Sabelo Mlangeni, Tracey Moffatt, Vittorio Mortarotti, Nadia Mounier, Wawi Navarroza, Mame-Diarra Niang, Taiyo Onorato, Lisa Oppenheim, Trevor Paglen, Beatrix Pang, Patricia Piccinini, Ana-Maria Preduț, Peter Puklus, Yafei Qi, Ola Rindal, Pipilotti Rist, Alexander Michailowitsch Rodchenko,