" Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. "

Henri Cartier-Bresson

" The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. "

Susan Sontag

" We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. "

RD Laing

The ghosts of the tribe

Crouch in the nights beside the ghost of a fire, they try to

Remember the sunlight,

Light has died out of their skies.

Robinson Jeffers, Apology for Bad Dreams