Photographs are always images of the past. Whether the shutter clicked a fraction of a second ago or the children who once frowned at the camera are long-dead, the instant captured into an image is now gone. But since photography dates back onl...

Gaia Squarci
Gaia Squarci is a photographer, videographer and writer who divides her time between Milan and New York, where she teaches Digital Storytelling at ICP. Gaia is a contributor of Prospekt, an IWMF fellow and National Geographic grantee. Her photography has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Time Magazine, Vogue, The Guardian, Internazionale, The Washington Post, among others.