Decaying books lying on dusty shelves; the last witnesses of a once thriving culture, are treated by Yuri like the survivors that they each are - every one captured as a portrait, preserved in their final beauty, pictures speaking a thousand words. Amongst these many hundreds of books and fragments photographed by Yuri, one stands out especially - one which miraculously found its way from a dusty pile to its rightful heir - a book once owned by Yuri's grandfather Jakub

