Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria textile photographed the remains of world’s

photographed the remains of world’s fairs worldwide

these images-words have been shot in the public space and mostly

others don’t

or enticing

in which images of nudes and of animals are interspersed with close-ups of the countless cigars he has smoked in his studio over the years

Ria Verhaeghe / Provisoria textile photographed the remains of world’sProvisoria 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 imagesoften dramatic, ambiguous, or unsettlingexplore the raw and layered emotional dimensions of photojournalism. With over 60,000 images, the collection spans from the striking and