Commandez en click and collect et venez chercher vos livres à la librairie — Order with click and collect and pick-up your books at the shop —
  • Provisoria - Ria Verhaeghe
  • Provisoria - Ria Verhaeghe
  • Provisoria - Ria Verhaeghe
  • Provisoria - Ria Verhaeghe
  • Provisoria - Ria Verhaeghe
  • Provisoria - Ria Verhaeghe
  • Provisoria - Ria Verhaeghe
  • Provisoria - Ria Verhaeghe

Provisoria - Ria Verhaeghe

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Provisoria is an alternative image archive curated by Ria Verhaeghe since the early 1990s, sourced from international newspapers. Organized by keywords, dates, and thematic groupings, the archive is an effort to explore a different dimension of photojournalism. The images—often dramatic, ambiguous, or unsettling—explore the raw and layered emotional dimensions of photojournalism. With over 60,000 images, the collection spans from the striking and dramatic to the ambiguous, grotesque, and unexpectedly tender. Three sections—Human Interest, Fusion and Mindwaves—offer insight into the archive’s conceptual range.

Fusion explores how we interpret images, grouping photographs by visual or symbolic qualities: featuring categories like shadows (simulacre), icons (icon), double images (glende), traces (trace), as well as those that are surreal (alien), aesthetically compelling (beauty), or energetically charged (move or MUD, for “multi-use dimension”). Mindwaves, by contrast, is structured around formal visual qualities: packaging (emballage), texture (such as Fourche, Circle, Amorf, or Geometric), and connection (connection, including subcategories like Human, Realea, and Strip). The Human Interest section (Icarus, Verticals , WWEB and Trümmerfrauen) contains images and notes focused on human emotion, empathy, and compassion ; texts by Giorgia Basch, Barbara De Coninck, Zoë Gray, and Philippe Van Cauteren.

  • 496 pages
  • 16,2 x 21,7 cm
  • English
  • 2025
  • Art Paper Editions