The Book That Started as a Newsletter

I recently reviewed my library of posts and it gave me an idea. What began here as a random series of posts about photography turned into something different as I went through them: an argument about the last two centuries of human record-keeping, about what it cost us to have a medium we trusted automatically, and about what the loss of that trust actually means. The photo books I made That argument is now a “book”: The Post-Evidence World: Photography Was Never Just a Witness. I created my argument as a short book mostly for fun (with chapters, page setup, and everything). I didn’t even know at the start if I would finish it. But once I started I wanted to know how far it would go. In the process of writing it, I realised I needed more than what I had already in my newsletter. The newsletter was exploratory, following an obsession without quite knowing where it was going. The book found a destination that I didn’t have in my head when I started the process. I came in thinking about…