We are an organization born from the act of capturing images. Of framing the undefined, giving it shape and boundaries. To understand it better. To explore it more deeply. What we do is tear something away from an inscrutable domain and project it onto a familiar plane, one where we know how to move with elegance and insight. To tell its story. To make it our own. As only we know how.
What you’re holding in your hands is, without a shadow of a doubt, something that best represents this idea. It is the culmination of the countless efforts of our reporters and editors to portray Pyro, through both words and images, and to pull it away from its aura of inhuman, dangerous frontier, outlining its contours so that you might come to know and understand its soul.
Pyro is a singularity. And, defying every law of physics or quantum theory, here the universe seems to orbit around it. Through the stories we’ve chosen to tell, you will discover that darkness exists in many forms. In countless shades.
And when we ventured into the very heart of Pyro with our images, pushing ever deeper, we realized that they were no longer enough. To complete our journey, we needed the right words. Because we had to be the first to understand it.
That’s why we had to draw once again from ancient words. Because if it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes, one must take a step back, reposition the camera, and refocus the scene from a different perspective. Letting oneself be moved by something old. Something that, nevertheless, rings painfully true today.
That’s what we did.
Guided by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., more than a thousand years distant from us:
«Only in the darkness can you see the stars.»