Published in 2017, Niki Feijen’s *Tempus Fugit: A Decade in Decay* places the passage of time at the center of its photographic proposition. The Latin phrase “tempus fugit”—time flies—is sharpened by the subtitle, which gives decay a ten-year horizon. Together, the two parts of the title frame deterioration not as a single dramatic event, but as a condition understood through duration.

The book’s scale is integral to that premise. At 251 pages, this hardcover publication allows the theme to occupy an extended form rather than remain attached to a handful of individual photographs. The photobook becomes the appropriate unit of attention: recurrence, comparison, and the accumulation of images can carry meanings that no isolated picture could establish on its own. Its seriousness lies in this sustained concentration on time and physical change.

Issued by Art of Urbex, the book also has a clear relationship to the photographic culture surrounding urban exploration. Yet its title reaches beyond the immediate description of places. “Decay” names a visible state, while “Tempus Fugit” supplies a broader temporal argument, encouraging the reader to consider how photography records what is already disappearing or becoming something else. The decade invoked by the subtitle gives that argument a measured span without turning it into a claim of permanence.

For collectors, the book merits attention as a substantial, clearly identified body of work by Feijen and as a publication in which subject and format reinforce one another. Its interest does not depend on claims of scarcity or special-edition status. It rests instead on the coherence of its central idea, the sustained space afforded to it, and the way the title directs the reading of the photographs toward duration, alteration, and loss.