Published by Blurb in 2020, The Speed of My Life is an English-language hardcover conceived around photographs inspired by a poem about early emotional loss. The premise is unusually concentrated: a private rupture first articulated in verse becomes the starting point for a photographic work. Language supplies the emotional ground, but the images must carry its implications through a different order of attention.

The title introduces movement and duration into a subject already marked by absence. “Speed” can suggest the pace at which experience overtakes understanding, while “my life” keeps that pressure personal. Against the poem’s theme of loss, the phrase acquires a productive tension: what passes quickly may remain psychologically unresolved. The photographs are thus framed less as a literal account of an event than as an image-based response to the emotional condition the poem establishes.

This passage from poetry to photography is the book’s most distinctive quality. It asks how one medium can absorb the charge of another without simply reproducing its form. In book form, the photographs are encountered as a sustained body of work rather than as isolated pictures, allowing recurrence, difference, and accumulation to shape the reading. The hardcover format gives that cross-medium project a defined bibliographic presence.

For collectors attentive to contemporary photobooks, personal narrative, or exchanges between literature and photography, the book merits consideration for the precision of its premise. Its significance does not depend on an expansive survey of loss; it lies in the decision to approach one emotionally specific source through another medium. Identified by ISBN 9781715141974, The Speed of My Life records a focused attempt to translate the aftereffects of early loss into photographic terms—and to let the photobook become the place where that translation is read.