Me, Le Corbusier, and friend / David Bergé

A book taking 43 minutes and 240 pages. A printed book activated by a sound space and your hands. The audio leads you through a printed archive of photographs while we follow a staged story and dialogue of two young people encountering themselves during a seven-month trip to “the Orient” in 1911.

The visual cargo of Me, Le Corbusier, and a friend consists of the photographs they took on this trip using a single, shared camera and glass plates—a physical effort that is hard to imagine today. The plates’ imperfections create a sense of primitive authenticity, of an archaic world emerging through layers of time.

The audio component of the book is a ‘dialogue’ between the two protagonists—a playful mise-en-scène by artist David Bergé—which imagines the two young Swiss men moving through different landscapes and discovering themselves with the tools they share: a camera and a guidebook for Westerners.

Published in 2025 by Time Based Editions

Format: 16,7x24cm
Pages: 240
Images: 121