För — Agnieszka Sosnowska. Published by Trespasser.
För is a book where landscape, being, and self are merged into the forbidding grandeur of the Icelandic countryside. It features portraits where people lean into the landscapes that they are part of. These are hostile landscapes, elemental windswept stretches of waterlogged grasslands and thinly vegetated hillsides. Sosnowska came to this stretch of remote Iceland via Poland and America and throughout there is a sense of belonging that comes through in Sosnowska’s other-worldly large-format images. It’s a book that creates a dialogue between a place and the people who live there, but most of all it’s a conversation between Sosnowska and the land that she now calls home.
Colin Pantall is a writer, lecturer and photographer based in Bath in the UK. He teaches on the Photography MA at Falmouth University and runs his own workshops on the history and practice of photography. His photography focusses on domestic environments and family, projects where the conflicting narratives of family, environmental and political histories collide.