The Night Watchers, New Zealand Nightscapes

Description

The Night Watchers New Zealand Nightscapes Text and Photographs by Grant Sheehan Photographed entirely at night, The Night Watchers takes the reader on a spectacular journey that explores both urban and rural landscapes. Whether shrouded in darkness, aglow in moonlight, under star-filled skies, studded by the Milky Way, streaked with the Aurora Australis, or illuminated by manmade nightlights, these night recording photographs present striking vistas that are simultaneously familiar and strange. Photographed using hi tech equipment, including a modified camera, purpose-built for Astro-photography, it extends the landscape book genre, adding an innovative perspective to what has fascinated us forever; the darkness of the night and what we can and we cannot see; as we gaze up and out into the vastness above us. This book follows on from the Phantom House Landscapes series, which includes `New Zealand Landscapes-Northland to Antarctica,' `Ghosts in the Landscape,' `Lights in the Landscapes-Lighthouses of New Zealand,' and `Eye in the Sky-A Drone above New Zealand.' The Night Watchers will be a limited edition book, signed numbered, with high production values. Each book will include a 25 x 30cm fine art printed on silver metallic art paper. These signed prints will also be limited editions of 100.

Grant Sheehan is an award winning Wellington-based photographer and publisher. His photographs have featured in magazines and newspapers such as Conde Nast Traveller and the New York Times, and in over 20 books, including Landmarks-Historic Buildings of New Zealand; Cafes of the World, the internationally successful series A Place to Stay - Hotels of the World, Planet Penguin and `New Zealand Landscapes from Northland to Antarctica'. He has twice won the New Zealand Travel Photographer of the Year Award (2002 and 2008), with images from international assignments. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums. His most recent books include Ghosts in the Landscape 2011, Lights in the Landscape 2012, Lighthouses of New Zealand 2013 and Eye in the Sky: A Drone above New Zealand, 2015.