First edition of Roads Over Troubled Water by Sophie Znon (2010)
First impression
Small format leporello hardback in new condition
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies
Signed and numbered to text booklet bySophie Znon
Presented in a hardback slipcase
Accompanied by 4 signed and numbered on verso prints as well as a separate text booklet with text in German, French and English
48 pages
40 photographs in duotone
About
French photographer Sophie Zenon has been travelling across Asia for more than ten years now. Initially, she spent a lot of time in Mongolia, Siberia and the Amur river basin, capturing both the enormous grandiosity of these areas and the populations harmony with nature and the divine. Zenon then continued her quest for the soul: between Siem Reap and Kratie, past Phnom Penh to the Gulf of Siam, she allows herself to be carried away on the waters of Tonl Sap and the Mekong. The relationship between water and the landscape is made crystal clear in Zenons panoramas. Water is the basis of life, and therefore of thought. Water is omnipresent, forming an inextricable whole with its environment, being its cause. Sophie Zenons way of working transcends several fundamental photographic principles. On the one hand, in her landscape photography she places nature at the fore in an almost literary manner by expressing philosophical reflections on the role of elements in nature via forms and shadows. On the other hand, just like Henri Cartier Bresson, she has mastered the art of capturing short-lived and unique moments. One of Zenons sources of inspiration is the Finnish master in both genres, Pentti Sammallahti.
