Feature : "Act One: A Century in the Making" | Matjaž Tančič, Patrick Wack

Matjaž Tančič and Patrick Wack are among the photographers featured in Act One: A Century in the Making, a new 704-page documentary photography book published by Other Side Editions. Bringing together more than 100 internationally renowned photographers and original essays by leading scholars, Act One invites to look at the forces defining the 21st century from climate change and human rights to war, globalization, technology and geopolitics.

Matjaž Tančič contributes Mars on Earth, his long-term project started in 2019 in China’s Gobi Desert, which follows the places and people on Earth preparing humanity for life on Mars. Patrick Wack shows Dust, four years of work in the Uyghur Region (Xinjiang), which brings together his series Out West and The Night Is Thick.

Published by Other Side Editions as a limited hardcover edition of 2,000 copies printed in Verona, the book launched with an exhibition at QCC Art Gallery in New York in October.

(2) From Mars on Earth - © Matjaž Tančič / Inland - (3) From Dust - © Patrick Wack / Inland