Tomasz Gudzowaty has never depicted death directly in his books; he has made it perceptible, tangible, yet never shown it point-blank. In this, his latest publication, Gudzowaty comes as close to death as ever before, through an extensive series of photos of his beloved dog Kazia, taken from the day of her cancer diagnosis up until her death. “When does dying actually start?” asks Gudzowaty. “You could obviously say the moment we are born. But the question is rather about a boundary, a point after which you refer to your life as dying. Only your consciousness can set the boundary.” In more than 800 photographs Gudzowaty has captured myriad moments of Kazia’s existence, everyday scenes of vitality that belie the fact that her life is inevitably approaching a premature end. Immediate and raw, the book is both an encyclopedic portrait and a record of how Kazia influenced her surroundings, what Gudzowaty calls her “gravity” around people. Kazia shows what was, yet also expresses that which is unseeable: the feelings, dilemmas and dreams which the complex relationship between life and death elicits.