The British landscape is changing. Geographically, politically, even emotionally, the boundary lines of Britain – and what it means to be British – are in flux. This book looks at the new terrains, memories and myths of this contemporary landscape through the eyes of some of the world’s most exciting photographers. Featuring over 24 projects taken this millenium, this book celebrates the snow-capped mountains and wind-swept islands while documenting the wildfires and floods that threaten the way we live.
Featuring:
Rob Ball, Richard Brine, Harry Cory Wright, Toby Coulson, Robert Darch, Melanie Friend, Robin Friend, Sophie Gerrard, Paul Hart, Alex Ingram, Jethro Marshall, Max Miechowski, Spencer Murphy, Miriam Nabarro, Sarah Pickering, Ian Potter, Simon Roberts, Kaveh Rostamkhani, Iain Sarjeant, Jem Southam,Toby Trueman, Nicholas J R White, Joseph Wright and Donovan Wylie.
This Pleasant Land: New Photography of the British Landscape
Written by Rosalind Jana
Hardback, 224 pages, 237 x 285mm
Published November 2022
£30.00
New on the studio shelf – Birgitta Lund’s mesmerizing publication ‘The Garden published by Space Poetry (Denmark).
The Garden is a contemporary photographic tale that uses Tivoli Gardens, an old amusement park in the middle of Copenhagen Denmark as an allegory. Here people of all different nationalities and ethnicities meet in a world of fantasy. An imaginary Orient with fake palaces and minarets is the backdrop of the place. It’s a surreal world, yet it mirrors the dreams and fears of life outside the entrance.
“When I started the project I lived very close to Tivoli and often came there at night. I started to see Tivoli and the people visiting the place as an allegory. There was to me an unnerving, surreal similarity between the images of war & conflict flickering on my screen at home, and Tivoli’s imaginary Orient, flashing light, and the seduced gaze of the visitors”, says Birgitta Lund.
You can read a review on Buffet website here and photographs on Time’s Lightbox here.
My photo-book of the week: The Beautiful Cliché by Renato D’Agostin.
“Finally a book on Venice without gondolette, silvery reflections, romantic glimpses of canals and bridges and everything else that provides the perfect tourist measure for selling a city known as ‘the most beautiful in the world.’ D’Agostin’s eye is certainly more sensitive than the emulsion or apparatus of his camera, and this is a crucial talent in the field of photography” Italo Zannier
Find out more about the book here.
Photographed in mc2 gallery, Milan, who represent Renato’s work.