Chloe Dewe Mathews: Caspian: The Elements
7#½ × 10 in. (19 × 26 cm) 248 pages 140 four-color images Hardcover ISBN 978-1-59711-444-8 US $65.00 / CDN $88.00 / UK £50.00 September 2018
Essay by Morad Montazami • • •
Compelling chronicle of the Caspian region by a bright new talent in photography Intimate portraits and dramatic landscapes from Russia to Iran Innovative social documentary project, supported by Harvard’s Gardner Fellowship
Copublished by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University
Caspian: The Elements is Chloe Dewe Mathews’s record of years spent roaming the borderlands of the Caspian Sea. In a resource-rich region roiled by contested geopolitics, Dewe Mathews found that elemental materials like oil, salt, and water are also involved in the mystical, practical, artistic, religious, and therapeutic aspects of daily life. In Caspian: The Elements a series of powerful visual narratives explore the deep links between people and their enigmatic and coveted landscapes. Chloe Dewe Mathews (born in London, 1982) is an artist, photographer, and video maker. She is the winner of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and her work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, London; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden.
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Exhibition Schedule Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, 2019
Morad Montazami is adjunct research curator at Tate Modern, London, for the Middle East and North Africa, and the director of Zâman Books, which is focused on publishing books about Middle Eastern studies, visual culture, and contemporary art.
Fall 2018