Hubert Humka - Eternal U

Blow Up Press 2023

Imagine that after death you will become a tree, part of the forest, unlimited and free energy. A lively monument will grow on you.

Eternal U is a story about the so-called good death and eternity. Through photographs of forests being natural cemeteries where the dead are buried in biodegradable urns or coffins, marked only with a previously selected tree, Humka shows a certain way of thinking about us as a code, an immortal chain of some larger universe. During life, we all draw from it, to later give it a part of ourselves:


“In each of these places, the forest itself, giving eternal rest to the people buried there, was the most important element for me,” - says Hubert Humka. - “There I photographed the soil in which they rested and the bark of the trees they became. I like to think that the roots of these trees, drawing from the people buried under them, include them in their existence, that nothing ends, that it is only our human self that changes. We become a tree, a forest, part of something bigger that reaches beyond us. We connect with the universe, we become infinite.”



Cover: soft (Ecoline Grey 290g)
Papers: Ecoline Grey 140g & Fedrigoni Materica Verdigris 120g

Format: 235x320 mm
Number of pages: 92
Number of photographs: 65
Language version: English & French

Print run: 550 copies

ISBN: 978-83-965969-3-2