EARTH IS MY WITNESS: The Photography of Art Wolfe

Award winning photographer Art Wolfe has worked in hundreds of locations and this is THE book of his career recording with great sensitivity a rapidly vanishing natural world. He has taken an estimated two million images in his lifetime and travels nearly nine months out of the year photographing new projects and giving inspirational presentations to educational, conservation and spiritual groups. In 1978 he published his first book 'Indian Baskets of the Northwest Coast' and worked for the world's top magazines such as National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, GEO and Terre Sauvage. Magazines all over the world publish his photographs and stories and he is known for having the broadest range of excellence of any nature photographer. He has said, 'It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.' Often haunting compositions, his wildlife portraits show cormorants sitting being petted by Chinese men on a gaslit raft at night, the piercing brown eyes of a Tuareg man in Morocco, the watchful Bengal tiger, ghostly gam trees in Australia, the Milky Way in spectacular colour behind two boulders, naked Bumi children splashing their way into the sea, the painted bodies of Karo Ethiopian tribesmen and the colourful beads and rainbow colours of the costumes and necklaces worn by the Maasai Mara tribespeople. An adult male lion stares vacantly into his camera, a plains zebra amidst white bearded wildebeest, greater and lesser flamingos pictured in Kenya and gemsbok African elephant, springbok and zebras all pictured together in the Etosha National Park, Namibia. There are colourful carpets, Dogon hunters and a spectacular series of gatefold pages including Moroccan architecture and women husking corn, landscapes of unbelievable beauty such as the Antarctic Peninsula, blue glaciers in Iceland, colourful wild flowers and snowy owlets in Alaska, a penguin stranded on a small iceberg, Arctic wolves in Canada, polar bears and cubs in Manitoba Canada, eagle hunters in Mongolia, whirling dervishes and fairy chimneys in Cappadocia Turkey, a crescent moon or a bright blue and red sky. Mountains and clear lakes, the reds, greens and yellows of giant sequoia in California, a rippling patchwork of colourful fields, a bison covered in icicles in Yellowstone and the Sahara Desert in Mali with a long line of camels. The book is organised by Mountain, Polar and Subpolar, Desert and Savannah, Ocean and Island and Tropical and Subtropical. Wolfe's images take us through the world's ecosystems and geographical regions in a vivid display of the fragility and interconnectivity of life on Earth and the book is undeniably breathtaking, an elegantly crafted masterpiece that will thrill collectors of nature photography. 396 enormous pages with dozens of gatefold pullouts, 28 x 3.8 x 35.5cm, spectacular colour.