a lover's discourse: fragments

Through the pages of "a lover’s discourse: fragments," Roland Barthes explores the world of love. In a comprehensive textual piece, Barthes examines flashes or fragments from relationships which he calls figures. These figures he defines as the lovers’ “discourse, [which] exists only in outbursts of language, which occur at the whim of trivial, of aleatory circumstances” (Barthes 3). "a lover’s discourse" serves as a compilation of these fleeting moments and experiences, which Barthes makes sense of by incorporating personal anecdotes and philosophical ideas. In an attempt to provide another relatable way of engaging with Barthes’ ideas, I have used photography to dig into a select few of his figures.