"Time is a strange thing.

When we don't need it, it is nothing.

Then, suddenly, there is nothing else.

It is all around us and in us too.

It seeps into our faces.

It seeps into the mirror, it flows around my temples.

And between you and me, it flows again, silently, like an hourglass.

Sometimes I feel it flowing inexorably.

Sometimes I get up in the middle of the night and stop all the clocks."

Hugo von Hofmannstahl, Der Rosenkavalier, Act 1.

All photographs by Ben Osborne

Idea by Valentino Barachini

Project by Valentino Barachini for Grani Edizioni

Text edited by Antonio Cecchi

Translations by Massimiliano Barachini

24×30 cm

Print run of 100 signed and numbered copies with 15 special editions copies that come with a print

A small quantity of books will be available for sale in the UK please email benjaminjamesosborne@gmail.com for information.

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