Essay by Robert Sobieszek, Poems by Stanley Diamond and Afterward by George Thompson In pictures that are broadly colourful, often lyrically seductive, and at times coolly ironic, Ganis questions the tensions that exist between photographic beauty and a not so attractive reality, while also documenting those places where commercial, cultural and natural formations combine. Illustrated with 92 full-colour photos. 'The culturally modified landscape is a map of man's toils and follies as well as his accomplishments and errors' - John Ganis