First edition of Roads Over Troubled Water by Sophie Zénon (2010)

First impression 

Small format leporello hardback in new condition 

Limited edition of 500 numbered copies

Signed and numbered to text booklet by Sophie Zénon

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 population’s 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 Tonlé Sap and the Mekong. The relationship between water and the landscape is made crystal clear in Zenon’s 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 Zenon’s 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 Zenon’s sources of inspiration is the Finnish master in both genres, Pentti Sammallahti.