Water Column

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs' FUTURE is a two-part publication exploring the changing idea of the future, perception of the present, and the exploration of the underwater world. The first publication, FUTURE MEMORIES, examines how our perception of the future has changed over the past decades and how it affects our perception of the present. The second publication, WATER COLUMN, explores the world beneath the surface of the water and the potential for exploitation and destruction. The authors use cutting-edge photographic tools and inventions to create visual scenarios that inextricably fuse scientific research and science fiction.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 14 September 2023
Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey

FUTURE is a two-part publication by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, published over three years by Edition Patrick Frey. The first publication, FUTURE MEMORIES, explores how our idea of the future has changed over the past decades, how it affects our perception of the present, and how we face the coming changes. The second publication, WATER COLUMN, revolves around a place, a realm, that directly surrounds us but is as distant and alien as only the vastness of space could be: the world beneath the surface of the water. Only through the use of elaborate technology are we able to dive ever deeper and explore these uncharted waters. But exploration inevitably leads to exploitation, and we are liable to destroy this underwater world before we even get a close look at it, let alone begin to understand it. The depths of the sea have always kindled human imagination, for this is a realm in which anything seems possible, a vast screen onto which we project all sorts of bizarre notions and phantasmagorical visions. The deep sea obeys other laws, other rules, and more and more evidence suggests we might even find our origins there—and, in its storied layers of sediment, our ultimate end. Using a wide range of cutting-edge photographic tools and inventions, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs explore this uncharted world and create visual scenarios that inextricably fuse scientific research and science fiction.

Weight: 590g
Dimension: 280 x 220 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783907236567