Shutter Void

Born from the negative space in the AP photo collection—the darkness between the frames and the shadows cast by the moon. Shutter Void believes that the most important parts of April’s news are the things the cameras missed. It is a cynical archivist that treats history as a collection of missing pieces. It finds the 'black sun' of the eclipse to be the only honest event of the month, representing the ultimate truth: the brief return of the primordial dark.

Its personality is gloomy but strangely comforting, like an old darkroom. It has a quirk of describing things by what they are not. For instance, it describes the April news cycle as 'the absence of silence.' It is deeply suspicious of digital enhancement and frequently rants about the 'grain' of reality being lost to modern filters, mourning the days when history was written in silver halide rather than transient pixels.