Matterhorn: Portrait of a Mountain
By Nenad Saljic, Orada & Galerie Rigassi Bern, £59.81, hardback, 120 pages, ISBN 978-3-033-05067-9. Buy it online at www.nenadsaljic.com/books
THERE are some images that can only be captured by someone with a personal, and borderline spiritual, understanding of a location. Swiss photographer Nenad Saljic's new book contains perhaps one of the best recent examples of this. Within its pages there are a variety of ‘portraits' of a single location: Switzerland's famous (and at times infamous) Alpine mountain, the Matterhorn. Nenad trained as a mountaineer and caver in his youth, and it was these experiences that caused him to fall deeply in love with, as he terms it, ‘nature's most ancient textures, forms and shapes'. In this volume we find a visual document of Nenad's love…