# what comes before

> what comes before (iPhone/iPad app by romain lalire.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/what-comes-before/id6795054347 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [romain lalire](https://appshunter.io/developer/1558663508)
- Category: Photo & Video
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 24 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France)
- Released: 2026-07-31
- Data updated: 2026-08-03
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/what-comes-before/id6795054347/reviews.md

## What is what comes before?

Each print is the final stage of a destruction. Aim at it to travel back in time.

what comes before is the augmented-reality extension of a photographic series on burned forests. The first series was photographed at the Plaine des Maures, in the Var (France), in 2024. 

Each slide was burned, photographed, then burned again: the final print is the last layer of a palimpsest.

This app lets you walk through that palimpsest. Point your device at a print from the series: its earlier states appear one after another, suspended in the room at the artwork's real scale. Move freely — step back to see the whole stack, come close to a single layer, walk between them. Time becomes a space you cross on foot.

The experience requires a physical print from the series as its starting point: the app accompanies the artworks — in galleries, exhibitions, or collectors' homes. Prints are unique editions (1/1), digital and analog photography on Hahnemühle Rag Matt Baryta paper, sold at Artenae gallery.

Romain Lalire


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-07-31

No release notes.

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