Our philosophical understanding of the photograph may find its bearings in notions of time and the past, but our tools for making images are imbedded in the aggressive stride of technological innovation and forward thinking. Cameras now possess the ability to sense, capture, process, describe, augment, predict, and ‘think’, in increasingly pervasive ways. James Tunks’s new book ZONE plays at the peripheries of new and old knowledge. Featuring images of birds of prey and the Apollo Mission insignia alongside remote Icelandic landscapes used for lunar exploration research; blinding full-bleed images of the sun and hyper-detailed telescopic photographs of the moon; the images in ZONE are rich in their symbolic and metaphorical scope. In this world image-making technology teeters between the ability to capture microscopic detail and the capability to cause disruption on a mass scale.

Vienna based artist James Tunks (*1988, Australia) is a Meisterschüler graduate from the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, and has shown in solo and group exhibitions in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Cologne, Vienna, and Melbourne, Australia.

A former critic and journalist, Dan Rule (*1979, Australia) is the Co-Director and Editor-in-Chief of Perimeter, an internationally renowned bookstore, distributor, and publishing house based in Melbourne, Australia, which is responsible for publishing more than one hundred books focusing on the peripheries of contemporary photography, art, architecture and theory.

To the publisher: Perimeter Editions
To the books: Perimeter Books
To the artist: James Tunks