Trent Parke: Monument Prison Tattoos Shades of gray and depth

Shades of gray and depth of field give Michael Kenna’s photographs a somewhat melancholic feel

As the most striking of paradoxes

and rid ourselves of the cloistered self-image given to us by late capitalism

these images observe the reality of the ways these routes carve and stain the landscape

Trent Parke: Monument Prison Tattoos Shades of gray and depthTrent Parkes landmark publication Monument is a portal through which we bear witness to the disintegration of the universe over 294 expertly printed pages all shot in his signature intense black and white. The monolithic book is painstakingly hand bound in leather bearing totemic coordinates to the planet Earth, blind stamped end sheets, black sprayed edges, and a loose steel plaque, that once removed, leaves the volume without language. The first