Maria Lax - Some Kind of Heavenly Fire (first edition, signed) handshake press

Maria Lax - Some Kind of Heavenly Fire (first edition, signed) handshake pressSetanta Books 2020 Im from a small town in Northern Finland surrounded by a vast, sparsely populated wilderness. Most pass through the town on their way someplace else. Without ever knowing it was a hotspot for UFO sightings in the 1960s. Unaware of this history myself, it wasnt until I read my grandfathers book that I learnt of the incredible stories of supernatural events. As well as the bravery and struggle against hardship in what is largely a

Even after half a century

Using scans from the original negatives and Steidl’s quadratone technique to bring out nuance and detail never seen before

its glitter and ghosts

Corinne’s radical and expansive photographic practice

“In that pre-digital and less paranoid era

Her work is imbued with a desire to control the physical and historical limitations of the camera

Are you nurturing

Gloss UV-spot varnish

but as I felt it

a city observing its camera obscura inversion – flickering inside the camera’s box

Softcover + dust jacket

Fontcuberta’s often provocative and playful views on science focused on recreating that forgotten voyage