Sweet Life Wing Shya What began as an initial

What began as an initial desire to photograph the insides of church basements quickly then expanded into a much broader series examining the fundamental search for community in America

"An exquisitely haunting

Signed to front cover by Marketa Luskacova

told through the strange beauty of a snowscape cast in a two month shadow

wading bird rookeries in the cypress swamps near Chokoloskee in Florida

Sweet Life Wing Shya What began as an initialFirst Errata edition (2012) This is a facsimile copy of the original book Medium format hardback in new condition About In 1960, armed with two magazine commissions and a stipend from Netherlands television, Ed van der Elsken (19251990) and his wife Gerda set off on a fourteen month journey around the world, from West Africa, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan to the United States and Mexico.