Jem Cohen’s camera, patient and tactile, conjures a world in which artists, their imaginations, animals and plants become forms of life unfolding and vibrating together, alive to the possibilities of light and time. Pierre Creton’s ‘portrait of a book’ by Michel Surya affirms life and its continuation through the eternal return of love and loss. Declan Clarke focuses on the history of Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe, and how it became a symbol of the former Czechoslovakia’ history and its separation into two countries after the fall of communism.