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Tour the stacks and the reading rooms of libraries around the world thanks to Curious Expeditions. Seen as a collection, the library – The Library – becomes abstract. In these photographs, virtually devoid of people, The Library is a concept : it is ‘potential’ energy as opposed to kinetic energy – the latent spring in the mind, coiled but waiting there, on the infinitely high shelves. Trying to decipher the magnetism of these images – having almost nothing to with a desire to actually read all of the books in each room – but each vaulted hall a physical manifestation of the phenomenon of the figurative mental space – the freedom to be found in endless rumination.