A collection of psychologically charged depictions of the natural world represents 15 years of the artist''s career, the entire series gathered together in one volume for the very first time. Simen Johan summons a metaphorically dense world into being where human fantasy and nature collides. Simen Johan originally drew attention in the early 1990s by merging digital manipulation with traditional darkroom techniques. Since then, he has been developing a hybrid form of image-making that integrates candidly photographed animals and landscapes with a compositional structuring and conceptual intent typically associated with painting and cinema. As Lyle Rexer pointed out in a 2016 issue of Photograph Magazine: Simen Johan is ''one of the first and best artists to incorporate digital image processing into this creative practice.'' In a catalogue essay, David E. Little, Executive Director of the International Center of Photography, proclaims ''Johan''s photographs underscore the importance of
