Bigert & Bergström (Mats Bigert & Lars Bergström)

"Last Calendar" is an art project by Bigert & Bergström for Cabinet Books.
Photography: Charlie Drevstam (January–May, July–December); Bigert & Bergström (June). Björn Keller - individual photographs of potatoes (April).
Design: Richard Massey. Research: Samuel Shuman. Editors: Jeffrey Kastner & Sina Najafi.

The Last Calendar project compiles a portion of these doomsday events and images of divination methods in an oversize wall calendar that ends abruptly on December 21, 2012—the date when the Mayan Long Count calendar ends. In 2011, this imminent apocalyptic date sparked many imaginative scenarios; when the date finally occurred, people gathered around the world for the final countdown. But, as with the other dates predicted to be the last, this day passed uneventfully.