Blind Spot gives readers the chance to follow Cole’s inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm, as he refines the voice,
eye, and intellectual obsessions that have earned him such acclaim.

This is a rare opportunity to journey through more than 150 of the author’s full-colour, original photos, each accompanied by his precise and evocative prose. Blind Spot is an intimate diary tracing years of near-constant travel, from a Berlin park to a Swiss mountain range, a church in Lagos to a parking lot in Brooklyn; these landscapes, beautiful or quotidian, inspire Cole’s memories, fantasies, and introspections. Ships in Capri remind him of writers from Homer to Edna O’Brien; a hotel room in Wannsee brings back a disturbing dream about a friend’s death; a home in Tivoli evokes a transformative period of semi-blindness, after which ‘the photography changed.. The looking changed’

Exquisitely wrought, and beautifully realised, Blind Spot is a testament to the art of seeing by one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature.