With this new issue entitled “(After)care“, The Eyes explores the methods and approaches of photographers who address the most traumatic chapters of our individual and collective histories.
This 13th issue is built around a notion that permeates Laia Abril’s practice, namely the question of care in a post-traumatic context – “(After)care” in English.

This issue explores the role of responsibility in the process of photography. Many questions are raised in this issue: how do we portray our deepest wounds? What is the significance of vulnerability in the creation of photographs? How can we ensure that the violence of the world is not repeated through the violence of images?
This issue of The Eyes features a variety of works and books by artists who all represent, in their own way, a practice of “photographic care”. The works address subjects as diverse as colonial wars, natural disasters, sexual and gender violence, and disability. Texts and interviews with researchers and artists broaden the reflection on this subject, which is as yet little discussed.

TEXTS
 
(AFTER)CARE
Taous Dahmani
Historian of photography and member of the editorial board of The Eyes
 
THE ORGANIC METHOD
Laia Abril
Artist, researcher and guest curator of The Eyes #13
 
(AFTER)CARE
Daniela Vicherat Mattar
Care expert, associate professor of sociology at Leiden University in The Hague.
 
HOW WOULD YOU CONSIDER AFTERCARE IN YOUR WORK ?
The artists published in the magazine give their views on the notion of aftercare in their artistic practice.
Ana Vallejo, Hayley Millar Baker, Hoda Afshar, Kitra Cahana, Margo Ovcharenko, Max Pinckers, Robert Andy Coombs, Masina & Gal, Jérémie Danon.
 
NETWORKS OF MUTUAL CARE
A conversation between the two artists, Carmen Winant and Laia Abril
 
PHOTOCAPTIONIST
Letizia Lopreiato x Laia Abril
Federica Chiocchetti proposes in these pages a dialogue between the unpublished images of Laia Abril and the poet Letizia Lopreiato. 
  
12 ARTISTS PORTFOLIOS                                 
Hoda Afshar
Robert Andy Coombs
Kitra Cahana
Joana Choumali
Jérémie Danon
Masina & Gal
Hayley Millar Baker
Margo Ovcharenko
Max Pinckers
Aida Silvestri
Ana Vallejo
Carmen Winant
 
 
9 BOOKS PORTFOLIOS
Sick in Bed, Cheryl Newman
Midlife, Elinor Carucci
Dry, Abdo Shanan
Licking War Wounds, Andrii Dostliev & Lia Dostlieva
Jardin de mi Padre, Luis Carlos Tovar
Small Wars, An-My Le
The Restoration Will, Mayumi Suzuki
Faire Face. Histoires de violences conjugales, Camille Gharbi
Where my Heart Settles Down, Wang Yingying