"What if you printed your 100 best photos from each year as a hardcover book?"
When the book arrives and you flip through it for the first time, it smells like ink and feels heavier than expected — that weight is literally your year. You also unconsciously train your eye: which photos truly count? Ten years from now, you'll know exactly how 2025 felt, without having to scroll through thousands of images.
Lotte (29), Groningen — UX designer at a small agency, spends every weekend shooting photos at the Vismarkt
On a rainy Saturday afternoon in February I sat scrolling through 4,200 photos for three hours and at some point thought: why did I photograph the exact same avocado toast nine times?
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