Desolate landscapes, silent, unresponsive cathedrals, fog, snow, empty intersections—a world whose muted imprints fill artist Andrey Krauzov’s Light from the Abyss, as if abandoned by people and revealed only to lonely, dreamy travelers. In many ways, the artist’s book, which consists of photographs taken around the world between 2014 and 2024, becomes a route itself—not so much a journey to a certain destination as a wandering through places that appear before the contemplative reader (traveler) in their pristine abandonment. However, Light from the Abyss does not leave the reader alone with just photographs: it is accompanied by drawings, cryptic texts, and three poems by three classic German poets, which to some extent can serve as "keys" to understanding the quiet world of this book, published in a limited edition of 300 copies. The very title of the collection is a kind of key: despite its apparent vagueness and gloom, the book carries a promise of hope and light that ultimately illuminates the darkness.