Journal · Volume 014

Sound and Quiet

Six essays on the sense that photography cannot keep. Why expensive rooms are quiet and quiet rooms are expensive, the playlist nobody chose, the morning a café scores for itself, the loudest room standing metres from the stillest, and the soundtrack of this archive, held only in the memory of whoever pressed the shutter.

Marble staircase, The Ned Doha

The Acoustics of Luxury

The ear knows an expensive room before the eye has finished looking.

A morning on Gewan Island, Doha

What Silence Costs

Silence reads as natural. It is almost always manufactured.

Infinity pool at dusk, AURA, Dubai

Music Nobody Chose

Every surface in the room was chosen. The music came from a subscription.

Morning counter, The Buttery Bakery, Doha

The Morning Sounds of a Café

Before the playlist goes on, the room is scored entirely by its work.

Behind the counter, KAAWA, Manchester

The Loudest Room in the Hotel

The quietest dining rooms stand metres from the loudest rooms in the building.

Street scene, Tangier, Morocco

What You Hear While Photographing

Every photograph in the archive had a soundtrack. The archive kept none of them.

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