synopsis
As Long as the Sun Lasts’ is Joselito Verschaeve’s second monograph, following his acclaimed debut ‘If I call stones blue it is because blue is the precise word’. In this new work, Verschaeve gathers images from his ever-growing archive to imagine a world on the verge of ending—a tender, melancholic reflection on creation, fragility, and persistence in uncertain times.
‘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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publisher : Void
2025
144 pages
dimensions : 17 x 24.4 cm
750 copies
2025
144 pages
dimensions : 17 x 24.4 cm
750 copies
about Joselito Verschaeve
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).
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publisher : Void
2025
144 pages
47 photographs
dimensions : 17 x 24.4 cm
book : 750 copies + riso print: 16 x 22,5 cm signed by the Artist - Limited Edition of 50
2025
144 pages
47 photographs
dimensions : 17 x 24.4 cm
book : 750 copies + riso print: 16 x 22,5 cm signed by the Artist - Limited Edition of 50