And Time Folds accompanied Vanessa Winship’s retrospective exhibition at London’s Barbican Art Gallery, bringing together photographs from seven series in a volume that considers how landscape carries memory, desire and history. Published by MACK in 2018, the book gathers work made across the Balkans, Turkey and the Caucasus, as well as Georgia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Its geography is extensive, but its attention is often intimate: a face, a stretch of ground, or a moment of stillness becomes a point of contact between private experience and larger historical forces.

Winship’s black-and-white photographs move with unusual assurance between reportage, documentary, portraiture and landscape. Rather than treating these as separate categories, the book places them in conversation, allowing borders to appear not only as political lines but also as psychological and temporal conditions. Her recurring concern with transience—within both society and the natural world—gives the images a quiet tension. They register places and people without reducing them to explanation, leaving room for ambiguity, recollection and speculation.

The book’s significance also lies in the way it opens the photographic work outward. Alongside the images, personal archival material reveals aspects of Winship’s thinking and working methods, while an extensive essay by photography historian David Chandler offers a broader account of her artistic trajectory. The written word is therefore not supplementary decoration but part of the book’s structure: it helps show how photographs are conceived, returned to and understood over time.

For collectors, And Time Folds is a substantial account of a major period in Winship’s practice and a carefully framed record of a retrospective encounter. Its 256 pages do more than survey individual projects; they establish connections among bodies of work made in different places and circumstances. The result is a book whose coherence comes from attention—to time, distance and the unstable meanings of belonging—rather than from a single fixed narrative.