Ashes and Snow: The Skies are Filled with Flying Elephants

by Gregory Colbert (Photographer)

A selection of the most iconic images of elephants and whales from Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow. His images explore wondrous interactions between man and animal dissolving the boundaries between humans and other species, capturing extraordinary moments of contact between man and animal. None of the images have been digitally collaged or superimposed; they record what the artist himself saw through the lens of his camera. Printed and bound in Italy on Velata Biblos paper from Cartiere Magnani; cover from handmade Nepalese paper sealed with natural beeswax; tied with tea-stained thread.

148 pages, Paperback

Published December 15, 2007

About the author

Gregory Colbert is a Canadian film-maker and photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum.