Quote by Teju Cole: “What happens when you return to a place you've photographed before?”

This question delves into the nature of memory, perception, and the passage of time. It prompts reflection on how both places and our own internal landscapes change, suggesting that returning to a familiar site reveals not just alterations in the external world but also shifts within ourselves.

In "Blind Spot", Cole combines photography and text to explore how images shape our understanding of the world, memory, and personal history, making this question central to his exploration of revisited geographies.

Nigerian-American writer and photographer whose debut novel Open City won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 2012. His work fuses memoir, criticism, and fiction to examine race, movement, and identity in the postcolonial world.