Time Isn’t Holding Us is Joakim Möller’s debut monograph, published by Setanta Books in 2026. It brings together different aspects of his photographic practice, moving between observations made in the street and the more deliberately constructed relationships of diptychs. Rather than presenting those approaches as separate projects, the book offers a setting in which they can be read together. Its subject is less a single place or event than a way of noticing the world and arranging what has been seen.
Black and white and dramatic composition give the urban photographs their distinctive character. The publisher describes an attention to the tensions and poetry of everyday life: moments whose significance may depend on framing, proximity or the interruption of a familiar pattern. Möller’s diptychs extend that attention beyond the individual frame. The encounter between two pictures introduces another level of interpretation, allowing an ordinary observation to become part of a more elusive or surreal narrative.
The photographs are described as fragments of a personal visual diary, rather than illustrations of a predetermined message or theoretical framework. That distinction leaves room for the reader to follow associations without having to solve each image. Street observation and visual invention become connected ways of working, and the sequence invites attention to how a photograph changes when it is encountered beside another.
The first edition is a 96-page hardback with 92 images, measuring 240 by 180 millimetres, in an edition of 1,000 copies. These details describe the regular book; the separately offered print packages are distinct purchase options.