A quote for August 2024.

If you have ever found yourself on the periphery, outside of dominant narratives and nuclear-ish families, you will have passed through a period of emptiness wherein the material of your life was not ‘suitable’ for any of the things around you. Meaning: no outlet or form of communication existed to convey your experience, and so the experience remained caught inside you, seething.

—Heather McCalden

From The Observable Universe: An Investigation (Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2024).

Photography by Nastia Petruk.