The suspense Tim Parchikov cultivates as a photographer is a form of contingency in the capturing of a place at a moment in which a story might suddenly have arisen there or where it might already have taken place, for at each stopping place on his wanderings around the world, Europe or Asia. In his own way the artist enquires about what might have happened or what will occur just after he moves on. Jean Douchet has provided the closest definition, affirming that suspense is “the dilatation of a present caught between two conflicting possibilities of an imminent future”.
