Chaos

This book comprises a selection of panoramic images that illustrate Koudelka’s singularity well. They are long shots, geometrical compositions divided between dark and bright, shadows and light. The images make a virulent assessment of the anarchy that mankind imposes on nature and on itself. They compose a dream space, a deserted, un-dated, barely situated ‘elsewhere’. Here is an entirely mineralized world, freed of humans, chaotic and marked by disaster.

Ultimately, another landscape has been recomposed, another setting, fashioned by the photographer’s gaze.

Postface by Robert Delpire.
Text by Bernard Noël.