Author Description

French photographer Sophie Zenon has been traveling across Asia for more than ten years. Initially, she spent 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 Tonle 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 wth 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 aure 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 mmoments. One of Zenon's sources of inspiration is the Finnish master in both genres, Pentti Sammallahti. Roads Over Troubled Water is an exceptional piece of design, printing and binding. The book is a work of art in itself, with its landscape format, fine duotone photographs, and leporello binding. With a separate text book (bilingual English/French) in a slipcase.