Tribulations of a Westerner in the Western World is a grand tour of a bland realm, framed by a slideshow and narrated by a cranky viewer in a running-off-at-the-mind commentary that veers from cynical to silly to wise to sick. Vincent Dachy presents the new Western Everyman as an engaging if solipsistic armchair tour guide, whose complex musings perform a strangely political indictment of a society in such an advanced state of decay, all one can do is sit and watch.

~ Doug Nufer

Tribulations of a Westerner in the Western World

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by Vincent Dachy

FORTHCOMING Fall 2023

Someone has taken a trip and taken photographs of that trip and someone else has been invited to watch a slideshow of the trip taken. There is a road, there is an abstract painting, there is a viewer who wishes he could live in a televised loop of a sunset, and another who wonders why people are fat. Tribulations of a Westerner in the Western World is a stunning first book by Vincent Dachy, a narrated slideshow of inner and outer geographies complete with 52 black-and-white photographs taken by the author.

This title is released as an open access second edition as part of punctum’s Special Collections project.

About the Author

Vincent Dachy was born in Belgium and lives in London where he practices Lacanian psychoanalysis, writes, and takes photographs – there are noises that cannot be written. He also takes photographs or writes when he travels out of London.