How do photographers select order and display their images? Conceived as part of a long-term
project at the CCA to examine the contemporary role of photography in the study and practice of
architecture The Lives of Documents - Photography as Project prompts reflections on the idea
of the documentary as an embedded quality of photography. Tracing the research materials
archiving practices and production processes of diverse authors photographers Bas Princen and
Stefano Graziani highlight a selection of photographic projects that model our visible world by
investigating notions of landscape and its destruction global infrastructure intimacy and
interiority and conditions of urban and domestic space and life. This publication follows
Princen and Graziani's travels to understand how artists use photography as a tool for their
artistic research and how they conceive of their projects as evolving and expanding
explorations. Text: Guido Guidi Naoya Hatakeyama Takashi Homma Roni Horn Annette Kelm Gert
Jan Kocken Aglaia Konrad Susanne Kriemann Armin Linke Ari Marcopoulos Richard Misrach
Marianne Mueller Phyllis Lambert Tokuko Ushioda and Jeff Wall.
