This summer, Abdulhamid Kircher will publish a book of photographs with Loose Joints entitled Rotting From Within that encompasses his entire life. They will also encompass lifetimes. The camera is a peculiar instrument. It can be an invitation to cultivate connection and also pretext to remain forever meters away. It can be a portal into other worlds and a reflection of one’s own, a guise for concealment, or a revelation in itself. As a teenager entranced by photography and hungry for experience, Kircher was compelled to capture the present and unwittingly found his way into the past.