Cover, image source: Edition Patrick Frey

Notes

Printed in Altenburg, Germany.

Publisher Note

In April 2013, photographers Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato, who have been working together for a dozen years, loaded up their 1987 Toyota Land Cruiser in Switzerland and headed east. Theyd already roughly traced their route by running a finger across the map of Eurasia to their ultimate destination, Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. It felt like setting forth on an expedition to the mystical realms of the East: Eurasia, Central Asia, the foothills of the Himalayas, the forests of Siberia, the Stan Republics, the gigantic expanse of the former Soviet Union. A vast land mass, very few images of which are lodged in our minds, at least no clear and well-defined images, rather a haze of history and global politics. Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato went out in search of these images, to reproduce them, and to create them themselves. Continental Drift is a travel log straddling the fine line between documentation and fiction about unknown lands, their possible past and conjectured future. It relates encounters with the utterly bizarre and inaccessibly alien, as well as with a remarkable openness and lavish hospitality theyd never known before, in striking contrast to their previous trip across the United States. Many of the countries and regions they traversed are in the throes of upheaval, caught between thousand-year-old traditions and post-Communist history and geopolitics, religious, territorial and ethnic turmoil, and the spreading desire to jump on the bandwagon of global turbocapitalism.

Artists’ Book

Continental Drift

by Nico Krebs, Taiyo Onorato

Publisher
Release Place Zurich, Switzerland
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2017
Credits
Designer: Hi
Printrun 1500
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-3-906803-20-3
Work  
Topics East Europe
Methods Photography
Language English
Format Paperback
Dimensions 33.0 × 24.0 cm
Pages 214

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Data Contributor: Artphilein Library, Christoph Schifferli

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