Sublime

The catalogue structure is very simple: a spread for the image and a spread for the caption. There are pictures of landscapes, of surfaces and drone pictures, each taken in a different place. Every picture depicts the illusion of a beautiful, undefined, sublime nature, however their reality, explained in the captions, is far from this impression. The images I collected represent the effects of global warming, climate change, water and air pollution. The catalogue is designed to appear elegant and fancy, white blank spaces give to it a clean and pure look. The paradox between its clean visual appreance and the filthy reality explained by the text, creates a play of illusion and disillusion of the reader’s expectations. In this case the feeling of the sublime arises from the images and enhances its power through the reader’s aknowlodgement of human environmental impact.