As Long as the Sun Lasts
Joselito Verschaeve
Void
English
Hardcover
Edition of 750
144 pages
176 x 244 mm
2025
ISBN 9786185479459
‘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.
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About the Artist
Joselito Verschaeve (Belgium, 1996) is a visual artist living and working in Ghent, Belgium. His work explores visual storytelling and is focused on photographic work and the photobook. He received his MFA in the Visual Arts at KASK and is currently finishing his Educational Masters. He’s a talent of Futures Photography (EU). ‘As Long as the Sun Lasts’ is his second monograph published by Void, following his acclaimed first book ‘If I call stones blue is because blue is the right word’ (2021).
https://joselitoverschaeve.com/trst
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About the Publisher
Void is an independent publishing house dedicated to photography books and education. The project is driven by its founders Myrto Steirou and João Linneu. You might bump into Myrto, Void’s editor, at a book fair or festival in a far flung part of the globe, but you’ll usually find her in Greece, at their store in Athens. João, Void’s designer, is based in Reykjavík… it’s entirely possible that you may not meet him (in person at least). Void works with both established and up-and-coming artists, proudly fostering photographers’ debut books.
Void has collaborated with many international art institutions since we started, back in October 2016. In 2021 Void became one of Futures Photography’s members. Void is devoted to and passionate about the projects they undertake. In their books, you will find powerful stories and innovative design, melded together with fine and experimental material.
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