Ecological topic

Self-published volume 'Do You Sea?' by Selen BOTTO deals about unvisible waste on beaches. It contains over 50 photomontages, the Italian photographer/artist by covering areas of colored beach photographs with plastic pieces and photographing them again.

The photo volume 'Oxbow Archive' by Joel STERNFELD contains seventy seven color frames of a flat, nondescript corn and potato field, symbolizing the impact of human consumption on nature. A political and cultural echo of 'Sweet Earth' and 'As it changed'.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30,5 x 25,5 x 2,5 cm., 144 pp., color ills., text language: English

Crescent City was once a place almost limitlessly rich in natural resources. In 'Redwood Saw' Richard ROTHMAN tries to document culture, people & landscape of this city in particular and the USA in general, the place serves as a model of a former boomtown

'The Eyes of the Earth' by Solmaz DARYANI shows a self-taught photographer's personal view of the disappearing Lake Urmia. Fading childhood memories prompted her to document what remains of the second largest salt lake on earth - an ecological catastrophe

'Where the World is Melting', is the first compilation by Ragnar AXELSSON himself of his 40-year life's work.It includes his highly acclaimed series 'Faces of the North', 'Glacier' and 'Last Days of the Arctic' as well as a previously unpublished series.

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.

'Beyond Drifting' by Mandy BARKER encapsulates in miniature the much larger environmental problems of an imperfect world. It presents a collection of plankton specimens related to discoveries made by naturalist Thompson in Cork Harbour during the 1800s.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 22 cm., 96 pp., 60 color ills., bilingual: German / English

For 'Under the Light of the North' Otto Olaf BECKER uses landscape photography as well as the coffee table format to reach the intellect through beauty. With a sharpened eye he shows the wounds that man has torn through the overexploitation of the earth.