Remember That You're Going To Live

Remember that you're going to live takes you on a photographic stroll through cemeteries in London, Paris and Lisbon - a way of coming to terms with human finitude... and the urgency of living.

“When i moved to Lisbon, i heard about the cemetery of Prazeres, which translates as the cemetery of pleasures.

What an interesting name, i thought — is it a particularly pleasant place to spend the afterlife, or would it be the dreadful desolate land where pleasures go to die?

On my first visit to this 19th-century cemetery, i saw a sign on a tomb that read: abandoned. I wondered, could you actually get out of the grave and move to a better place if you got tired of the neighbourhood?

On another walk through the alleys, i noticed a branch coming out of a tomb through the broken door window: it was heavy with early spring burgeons.”

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at https://www.talesofinkandlight.net/p/wandering-in-the-alleys-of-the-cities

Cover of the book Remember that you're going to live

• 36 photographs
• 52 pages

Also available as a paperback on amazon, in English and French

Format: 15,24 x 22,86 cm - 6 x 9 inches

Matte cover. Inside: white paper (90 gr / square meter)

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near the entrance of the cemetery of pleasures

the charming ass of a young woman


with a skin of stone



the flowers are made of cloth


or carved in marble


they try to last



nothing lasts

people die

on messaging apps a notification

this person has left the group

a chair in a garden remains unoccupied


a sign on a grave reads 'abandoned'


did the occupant give up their accommodation
 and where did they go



these are abysmal questions



why hang around with a simple, horrible truth



to tame it perhap

s

it's no easier than taming a fox