About

Malta’s natural and built environment seems to be under constant, rapid transformation. Its urban and natural landscape tightly linked together, continuous with one another, connected by power lines, telephone wires and electricity poles. The two are fused together, difficult to be treated separately. Malta’s perpetual cultural development dramatically affects the two, leaving its society in an incessant search for its identity. 

This project acts as a documentation and exploration of Malta’s changing culture. The photographic documentation acts as a representative sampling of the current situation, taking shape in the form of a photographic exhibition and photography book, strong imagery that depict Malta on different scales. Black and white photographs, focusing on large scale urban monuments, to open/natural made spaces, to human moments. This photographic study acts as an attempt to ground Malta, and its society’s identity.

Book Details

Designed by Matthew Attard Navarro, the photography book is an 88 page, linen bound hand stitched book, with each book containing a 4x5” Silver Gelatin contact print, hand printed by the photographer, on the cover. The photography book contains black and white images of various scenes throughout Malta’s built and natural environment. Within the middle of the book, one may also find a short story written by Konrad Buhagiar.

Self Published
88 pgs
30 × 24 cm
Hardcover
2019, 978-99957-1-403-1

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