Anastasia Samoylova

The first monograph of trailblazing photographer Anastasia Samoylova is a vital—and gently humorous—meditation on environmentalism, consumer culture, and our disorientating times. Adaptation is the first career survey on Anastasia Samoylova, one of the most dynamic image makers to have emerged in recent years. Bringing together her six major bodies of work, it reveals the enormous range of artistic influences and...

Shortlisted for The Photographer's Gallery's Photography Foundation Prize FloodZone is Anastasia Samoylova's photographic account of life on the climatic knife-edge of the southern United States. Serious climate change is upon us, but this is not a visualisation of disaster or catastrophe. These beautifully subtle and often unsettling images capture the mood of waiting, of knowing the climate is changing, of...

Sunshine state. Swampland paradise. Tourist aspiration. Real estate racket. Refuge of excess. Political swing-state. Subtropical fever dream. With forms of nature and culture found nowhere else, Florida is unique. It is also among the most elusive and misunderstood of places. Anastasia Samoylova photographs Florida on intensive road trips. Walker Evans (1903-75) photographed it over four decades. Twisting the visual clichés,...