Journey to a forgotten world

Galaxia Gutenberg, 2023

In Journey to a Forgotten World, Jordi Esteva continues the memoiristic reflection begun in his previous book, *The Nomadic Impulse*. While that book focused on the recollection of childhood and youth and the awakening of a fascination with the different and the distant, in his new book, Esteva reflects on what has led him to create his work as a photographer, filmmaker, and writer, drawing from mythical spaces within his personal geography: Ivory Coast, Sudan, Yemen, Zanzibar, Mombasa, and the island of Socotra.

Memories, reflections, and confessions unfold to compose an elegy for people, places, beliefs, and ways of life that are disappearing, swallowed up by the homogenization imposed by globalization. It is a song to centuries-old realities on the verge of vanishing like a beautiful dream.