The Intimacy of Extinction revolves around the phenomenological question "What is it like to live in the age of the 6th mass extinction"? Phenomenology is about how we experience things, the world and ourselves within the world. To make the question more concrete, I reduce the scope of the question to an actual, palpable thing, the nature reserve. In a sense, the nature reserve is a concrete manifestation of the age of the 6th mass extinction. On the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, a global biodiversity hotspot and a place renowned for its many critically endangered species, little forest is left outside a handful of forest reserves "What is it like to live in the age of the 6th mass extinction"? Satellite imagery gives a clue. Satellite imagery provides scientific data but also conveys emotions, it discloses meaning. Looking at historical satellite imagery of Sumatra's forest cover is an unsettling, yet intriguing experience. As the forest disappears, the nature reserve appears. Decades of destruction has delineated the green patches on the map I’m familiar with today. Reading the satellite image is a spatiotemporal experience. Any meaning attributed to the nature reserve (i.e. as place of permanence or impermanence) only exists within its spatiotemporal situatedness. The Intimacy of Extinction is a photographic translation of the spatiotemporal experience of the satellite image into the affectual, intimate and grounded experience of the being there. As I construe the scenery in front of me in accordance with the spatiotemporal reality of the satellite image, the experience of nearness to the nature reserve discloses the world in which the reserve is situated.. …and in which the question is asked: “What is it like to live in the age of the 6th mass extinction? “The intimate comes to be when the boundary is breached between an interiority and the outside” Living-Off-Landscape, François Jullien, 2018 This project would also fit in the category Anthropology and Territories