Backpacking through Europe is an inevitable box to check off on every twenty-something’s bingo card. The experiences, the culture – and as much as we are loath to admit it – the aesthetic Instagram postcards are just some of the highlights that come with roaming the streets of Paris or Berlin.
Slouching: A Field Guide to Art and (Un)Belonging in Europe by Charlie Squire is a diary of sorts, commemorating their six-month trip to 23 cities in Europe, including Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, France, Italy, Hungary and Croatia. Standing at barely 90 pages, Slouching could just as well serve as a travel pamphlet or a scrapbook of film photos. It’s a multimedia delight of text, doodles, photos, and scanned mementos. Ticket stubs, film strips, business cards, receipts. Its homeliness and warmth belies the painstaking curation that putting together a book like Slouching requires. Read more...
