Gone & Leaving
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Title
Gone & Leaving
Subject
Diaristic
Description
Gone & Leaving began as a large accordion installation and later became a small, handheld book. That shift matters. What started as something you move around eventually becomes something you hold, like memory itself, close, fragile, and personal.
The work is about leaving: leaving places, people, versions of yourself. About how grief doesn’t just take something away, but quietly changes who you are. It looks at how memory stays lodged in domestic spaces, in objects we keep without knowing why, and in moments that return when we least expect them. Photography becomes a way of staying with those fragments rather than trying to resolve them.
The book is built through layered photographs, handwritten journal notes, and scans of kept materials. Some details are immediately visible, others are hidden, folded, or only partially accessible. This mirrors how memory works incomplete, unstable, and always in the process of becoming something else.
The book contains 25 double-sided pages printed against deep black backgrounds, with vignetted images that recall cinematic slides. The structure allows the reader to move forward on one side and backward on the other, so beginning and end collapse into each other. This reflects how leaving is rarely linear, and how returning, emotionally or mentally, is often part of the same movement.
Touch plays a central role. Fragile accordion folds, different paper textures, inserted elements, and a small metal clip ask the reader to slow down, to lift, unfold, and handle the book with care. Each copy is uniquely handmade, turning reading into an intimate, physical act.
At its heart, Gone & Leaving is about learning how to live with what’s been lost, and how we rebuild ourselves through memory, touch, and the act of paying attention.
The work is about leaving: leaving places, people, versions of yourself. About how grief doesn’t just take something away, but quietly changes who you are. It looks at how memory stays lodged in domestic spaces, in objects we keep without knowing why, and in moments that return when we least expect them. Photography becomes a way of staying with those fragments rather than trying to resolve them.
The book is built through layered photographs, handwritten journal notes, and scans of kept materials. Some details are immediately visible, others are hidden, folded, or only partially accessible. This mirrors how memory works incomplete, unstable, and always in the process of becoming something else.
The book contains 25 double-sided pages printed against deep black backgrounds, with vignetted images that recall cinematic slides. The structure allows the reader to move forward on one side and backward on the other, so beginning and end collapse into each other. This reflects how leaving is rarely linear, and how returning, emotionally or mentally, is often part of the same movement.
Touch plays a central role. Fragile accordion folds, different paper textures, inserted elements, and a small metal clip ask the reader to slow down, to lift, unfold, and handle the book with care. Each copy is uniquely handmade, turning reading into an intimate, physical act.
At its heart, Gone & Leaving is about learning how to live with what’s been lost, and how we rebuild ourselves through memory, touch, and the act of paying attention.
Creator
Agostina Cerullo
Publisher
Agostina Cerullo
Date
2025
Format
Photography • Design • Concept • Agostina Cerullo• New York • 2023-2024
Printed at TecnoArt, Barcelona, with gratitude to Paco, without whom these pages would not have found their form.
Paper Old Mill Ivory 190 gsm
Covers printed in serigraphy at Suburbia, with heartfelt thanks to Gianluca for his endless help.
Hand-bound with Luz Cubas.
Printed at TecnoArt, Barcelona, with gratitude to Paco, without whom these pages would not have found their form.
Paper Old Mill Ivory 190 gsm
Covers printed in serigraphy at Suburbia, with heartfelt thanks to Gianluca for his endless help.
Hand-bound with Luz Cubas.
Book Item Type Metadata
Dimensions
14.8 x 21.0 cm
Number of Pages
54
Number of images
39
Edition Size
Limited edition of 100
Place of Publication
New York
Designer
Agostina Cerullo
Editor
Agostina Cerullo
Website
www.agostinacerullo.com
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Citation
Anonymous, “Gone & Leaving,” Photobook Cafe Photobook Collection, accessed February 18, 2026, https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/items/show/1979.