Through the Eye of a Needle

Through the Eye of a Needle

'Dogbreath' Captures Tucson's Light and Absence

An exercise in time dilation, Matthew Genitempo tries his hand at wrangling Tucson’s black hole sun with his photobook 'Dogbreath'.

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Elida Silvey
Feb 21, 2025
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‘Dove says that yesterday someone took a picture of the black hole’

Scan of a photograph in ‘Dogbreath’ by Matthew Genitempo

Time acts differently in Tucson. The sun damages everything, too much life source leads to death. When I lived there I hung my …

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