What the Rain Might Bring is photographer Dylan Hausthor's first release. Designed as a work of art in itself, the book features a frame—black edges and spine—and is entirely devoid of text, with only a simple title on the cover. The minimalist design sets the stage for an immersive sensory experience that intertwines the tactile and the visual, drawing readers into a world steeped in mysticism.
 
 
 
Inspired by David Arora's mushroom identification guide, Hausthor's large-format black-and-white photographs explore the rich interplay between the human, plant and animal realms. What the Rain Might Bring delves into storytelling, faith, folklore and nature's inherent strangeness. The images evoke a sense of pagan, Wiccan, religious, anarchic and mystical rituals, offering a visual exploration that is both candid and filled with hidden secrets.
 
Within Hausthor's wild world, characters and landscapes become conduits, weaving new narratives that challenge perceptions of reality. The images—an owl in flight, a procession of figures, a baby feeding at its mother's breast, a towering mushroom and spiders in their webs—depict a world in which human roles feel fragile, overshadowed by nature's dominance. Each photograph oscillates between the unsettling and the enchanting, the humorous and the haunting.
 
 
 
Central to Hausthor's work is a fascination with the instability of facts in storytelling. Viewers are drawn into a space where the line between truth and artistic licence is deliberately blurred. Hausthor's photography integrates elements of ad hoc investigative journalism, misinformation and performance, disrupting traditional approaches to nature photography. The result is an exploration of a post-factual world, where the boundaries between parable and reality dissolve, leaving viewers questioning what they believe.
 
 
 
The book's structure is anchored by seven delicate folds, symbolising the consecutive nights on which Hausthor was visited by a moth, an intimate marker of time that gives the work a diary-like quality. These pages invite readers into a ritual experience, transforming the book into a meditative artefact that reflects the fractured, fluid and deeply human nature of reality itself.