Dan Leers - Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology and the Contemporary Landscape

Dan Leers - Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology and the Contemporary LandscapeHow has humanitys relationship with the land been documented by, and altered through, photography? How has the ever increasing pace of image making changed the environment and human ecology? These are the driving questions of Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, a publication inspired by a generation of contemporary artists who have endeavored to chart the past, present and potential futures of photography and the

The book’s organizing principle is the echo: between text and image and between bodies and the stages

200 colour and duotone plates

one that is largely built around the lingering images left behind by otherwise vanishing intersections

COLOUR: Available in three variants: Clear bottle-green & matt orange

112 colour plateswith a 24-page text by the artistSection-sewn silkscreened debossed cloth hardcover

With a poetic innocence

With essays by David Campany

On stage or in the galleries

and mobility are themes that have driven my work for many years

Yana Wernicke and Jonas Feige traveled to the present-day Republic of Cameroon several times for this photographic essay in order to retrace Zenker’s life there and portray his descendants

Oxford University in collaboration with neuroscientist Prof Kia Nobre and her students

Design by Loose Joints Studio