Windows

(Hardback)

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Windows is the breakthrough project of Xavier Guardans, produced in 2006 while exploring the Kenyan bush, and now seven years later, published for the first time. Windows includes a stunning selection of portraiture depicting various Turkana, Samburu, Masai, Rendille, Gabra, and Pokot individuals framed through the window of a Toyota Land Cruiser 4x4. This book is the first in a series of five to be published of Gurdans' long-term photographic projects.

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The photographs of Spaniard Xavier Guardans are descendants of the Thesiger tradition of humane portraiture.--The Editors "The Wall Street Journal"

Author Bio

Xavier Guardans (b. 1954, Barcelona) is a fine art photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Guardans is a unique photographer who explores his fascination with nature by shooting on location with only natural light. Through his widespread travels for estende periods of time to such far-flung places as Kenya, Japan, China, Patagonia, Joshua Tree, and Utah, to name a few, Guardans demonstrates an extraordinary ability to be comfortable in many different worlds.