Awarded with the International Photobook Prize Kassel 2009

The photographer Lukas Felzmann was fascinated by the very thing that some driving past would find boring, flat, and disconsolate: the vast Sacramento Valley, located just a hundred miles from San Francisco. Felzmann discovers with his camera the hidden charms of that seeming nonplace. For him, exploring a place means both walking around and lingering quietly, until the valley opens up like a book, with stories that cry out to be read and discovered. With his camera he traces how time, determined here by the growth of the plants, slows on the plane, and how the horizontality of the surface becomes a reassuring balance to the hectic city of millions nearby. The photographs show the diversity of the plane: the original landscape in its natural state, the large swaths put to agricultural use, the modern provincial towns, and the transitional areas in between. Photographs of water in all its facets run through the book, just as water runs through and forms a valley.

『Awarded with the International Photobook Prize Kassel 2009』

写真家Lukas Felzmannは、サンフランシスコから100マイルの場所にある広大なサクラメント川流域に魅了され、植物の生長や水面、そして近郊の忙しい都会とバランスを取るかの様に広がる水平線をカメラにおさめた。本書に収録された一連の水の写真は、地を流れ川を作る水のように巻頭から巻末へと流れている。
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