At Magalleria we're big fans of Eric Kessels, master of the found image. Distilled from over 15, 000 family albums, his latest opus Incomplete Encyclopaedia of Touch archives the human desire to put our hand or finger on it – literally.

Whether it’s cars, boats, animals, trees, fridges, bridges, bushes, fellow humans or even their gravestones, everything that can be touched will be touched. Containing almost 2000 photos, this collection is far from ever being finished but provokes questions about the underlying motivations behind this universal behaviour and the urge to capture it with the lens. Do we seek connection? Do we claim ownership? Or do we just want to measure ourselves to the objects of our world?

RVB Books, 496pp, 22cm x 30cm, illustrated paperback, 2024