Being The Photocaptionist, a platform that explores the intersections between photographs and words, you might wonder where the words are in this exciting and challenging collaboration with Der Greif. In crafting this visual narrative we actually opted for letting the images’ original hyper-texts (titles, captions, inscriptions, artist statements) ‘drive’ us in developing combinations and sequences. We started with a seemingly astonished boy ‘looking’ with his eyes wide open towards a slide from the series Russian Night which comes with a mysterious inscription: ‘Leningrad – A Hero City. Monument to the Victims of January 9, 1905’. This combination made us reflect upon notions of poor monuments, unintentional talismans, absence, the visible & invisible, ambiguity, optical illusion, memory, the open, potential, holes in knowledge, markings, and the absent gaze. We embarked on a visual trip inspired by its constant renovation through the ambiguous and mysterious relationship between the images and the hyper-texts with which they circulate. We hope you enjoyed our selection and we would like to express our warmest gratitude to the Der Greif team for the opportunity.