AnOther: Zora Sicher’s Debut Photo Book Maps Time, Bodies and Space

When photographer Zora Sicher saw an adaptation of Joan Didion’s novel Play It as It Lays, one particular phrase stayed with her: “the geography of the human heart”. She wrote it down and kept returning to it, consumed by the ideas it evoked of mapping feelings and place, and the correlation between geography and experience – a kind of emotional cartography. At the same time, she’d been thinking about psychogeography and the practice of exploring our environments guided solely by subjective impulses and the desire to generate chance encounters and uncover hidden histories and memories. All these ideas coalesced in the creation of her debut photo book, Geography, published by Dashwood Books. by Emily Dinsdale