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HOT DAMN!
A psychedelically wild photographic journey through the legendary, Owl Farm, Hunter S. Thompson’s writing lair in Woody Creek, Colorado.
One night, Hunter beckoned me to his chair in the kitchen and said, ‘So, you say you’re a photographer. Well, Taschen is doing a book of my photographs,’ followed by a mocking ‘Ha, Ha.’ I didn’t mind; Hunter was Hunter. A moment later his face changed, and, looking sheepish and sorry for bullying his young assistant, he began to explain that almost his whole life had been documented—except for his home, the ramshackle, remarkable creative heartland that was Owl Farm. It needed to be visually archived, he said to me, and it was mine to photograph if I liked.
Published in 2021 by GOST Books
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FLAMINGO
There is a place on earth that looks like white paint has spilled from the heavens and splashed across its surface. There is no arboreal green . There is no azure water. There is no earthy, brown soil. This albino birthmark is the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans in the heart of the Kalahari Desert of Botswana.
SWAMP
SWAMP
Shortlisted for the Recontres d'Arles photo festival in 2016, SWAMP, is a foray into the unbridled wildness of the Okavango Delta.
‘This story takes place in my home, Botswana, a home that I found a little later in life. A home that I feel I am of, but not from. I have learned its contours through picturing and tracing in the light and dark, through image and imagination.
I live in Botswana, where there are few people. The land is the language of my tale. In Botswana we sit on the last descending contours of the Rift Valley, where annually the rains from the highlands of Angola bring water to the northwest corner of the country, creating a swampland of immense wildness and beauty.’
Chloe Sells's works begin as traditional photographs, created with her large format camera in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. They are later transformed in her London darkroom with a combination of light manipulation, spontaneous experimentation and alchemy.
