Back of Film

Please do not rush to believe these records. They come from different eras, different places, and different people: newspaper reporters, investigative photographers, factory inspectors, members of charity organizations, sound recordists, archivists... They have walked into factories, mines, newspaper offices, docks, slums and asylums with cameras, shorthand notebooks, letters of introduction or a roll of film that has not yet been numbered. They originally thought they were recording facts. A child's age, a salary, a negative, a report, an unbroadcast recording. But later they discovered that the facts did not always remain intact on paper. Names will be redacted, photos cropped, reports suppressed, testimonies rewritten. What remains is often only the part that is allowed to be seen in a certain era. This book collects a set of documentary stories that happened in the gaps in history. Most of the characters and plots are fictional, but the era, occupation, artifacts and social background in the story are as close as possible to those real old photos and archives. If you see a blurry face in a chapter, don't just look at where he's standing. Please also think about: who photographed him, and who did not write down his name.