Canadian photographer

HC with dust jacket, 26 x 33 x 2 cm., 88 pp. (8 uncoated, 80 coated), color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 35 x 28 x 3 cm., 180 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

Slipcased pb., 18 x 24 x 1 cm., 176 pp., 90 color ills., 459 gr., text language: English

In 2005, Edward BURTYNSKY gave in out-of-print book 'China' the industrial change in China a visual form for the first time. If the earth's resources were besieged by western colonialism, China was at the beginning of a comprehensive attack on the planet.

The war-relics presented here offer an immersive narrative on the theme of social memory. The book shows D-Day artifacts, WWII spy-craft and old Hollywood movies, dioramas and drone-mounted cameras, private post-war memoirs & wistful seaside photographs.

The Canadian photographer Edward BURTYNSKY researched and photographed the oil industry and culture for the photo book 'Oil'. These images show how the world is made possible by this energy resource and the effects of industrial evolution.

In a sequential narrative punctuated by contrasting moments of violence and beauty, Ron JUDE follows in his out-of-print photo volume 'Lick Creek Line' the rambling journey of a fur trapper, methodically checking his trap line in a remote area of Idaho.

The small sized photo volume 'The Great Eastern' by Scott CONARROE examines the changing landscapes of China with a view to the massive expansion of a high-speed line, the domestic part of the Belt & Road Initiative, also known as the 'New Silk Road'.

HC, 25,5 x 29 cm., 96 pp., English

Out-of-print 'Water' by Edward BURTYNSKY documents water management infrastructures in the USA as well as in China. His images show the flourishing that civilization has achieved through water, but also how we depend on this increasingly scarce resource.