A visual journey through the forgotten corners of the eyewear industry.
The collection, started in 2018, is an ongoing project, taking no claim to meaning, blending scanography and photography to explore fragments of a trade shaped by time, chance, and memory. The publication was developed under the creative direction of Mathys Dos Santos, a 23-year-old Brussels-based photographer with a focus on archival storytelling and small print-run publishing. The book is a testament to the richness of forgotten material culture, placing itself at the crossroads of visual culture, industrial design, photography and archival research, documenting a lesser-known sector of the eyewear history through a curated lens.
Edited by Mathys Dos Santos
Texts by Adriana de Chavagnac and Nicolas Musty
Graphic design: Mathieu Teissier and Mathys Dos Santos
Published by Bidules, Brussels
published in September 2025
English edition
21 x 28 cm (softcover)
380 pages (ill.)
ISBN : 978-2-37896-657-7
