Coral by Martin Colognoli

Description

A beautiful photobook that embodies and supports the inextricable link between an Indonesian fishing village and the coral reef on which its survival depends.

A photographic history in 130 photographs and four chapters like a relational sequence that plays out (and knots) infinitively.

The book is presented in four stages: the coral, the human, the link and the actions of protection, like a chronological, didactic and circular journey, a relational sequence that plays out ad infinitum. Each one introduces a text and sometimes opens on a questioning. No legend here, only the humble testimony of the photographer, sharing the daily life of a community of former nomads, without water or roads, and on their dependence on this hybrid character, an animal living with a plant, which is coral. A total of 130 color and black& white images – a bias that exploits the full range of photographic renderings – constituting this advocacy carried out over six years of work and reporting.

ISBN: 9782490952328
Author(s): Martin Colognoli