the drama on the stage within is a dialogue between photographs and short free-form texts. Often, the meaning of an image is controlled by the caption. Here, nor are texts an explanation of the image and neither are photographs simple illustrations. They respond to each other: the words influence the reading of the photograph, the image in turn affects the meaning of the text. You are invited into a conversation that pokes gentle fun at how easily we become oblivious of the world as our lives are governed by the stories we tell ourselves. This is an occasion to meditate on, or consider with gentle irony, the weirdness of us human beings.

Pierre François Docquir is a self-taught photographer and writer based in Lisboa, Portugal. His practice of photography is that of a flâneur. He writes the Tales of Ink and Light, a weekly newsletter that presents poems, short stories or essays that explore the strange beauty of our world and takes you to places of freedom, imagination, rebellion and meaning making.