Joselito Verschaeve
‘As Long as the Sun Lasts’
by Joselito Verschaeve, published by Void.
‘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
‘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.
“The title can be read very optimistically: to keep creating as long as time allows it. But at the same time, it carries a dystopian undertone—that things could end at any given time.”
Joselito Verschaeve
At the heart of the work lies a quiet contradiction: an optimism that insists on creating while time still allows it, and a lucid awareness that all things eventually fade. This duality defines the book’s tone—hopeful and resigned, fragile and persistent. Each image feels like a gesture of continuity against the inevitable, a way of saying we are still here.
The final chapter turns inward. Together with Void, Verschaeve explores the anatomy of the photobook itself: experimenting with different sequences, building alternate narratives, and revealing the invisible logic of editing. An index decodes these narrative threads, while a schematic score translates the book’s rhythm into notation. What begins as a meditation on endings concludes as a reflection on how stories are made—and remade—as long as the sun lasts.
As Long as the Sun Lasts
17,1 x 24,4 cm
144 pages
750 copies
Hardcover with French folds
ISBN 978-618-5479-45-9
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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Photograph: Joselito Verschaeve
Edit, Design: João Linneu, Myrto Steirou
Illustration: Joselito Verschaeve
Printing: Livonia
Binding: Livonia
Language: English
Font: FT88 Serif by Mandy Elbé and Oriane Charvieux, Segment Regular by Indian Type Foundry
Joselito Verschaeve © for the photographs & illustrations
Void © for this edition