Published by Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 2026, English and French texts by Robert Tombs, Barry Pottle and Leslie Reid; 56 pages, 27.9 × 19.6 cm (11 × 7.7 inches), Singer-sewn softcover with nested signatures, offset and digital. Design by Robert Tombs with Henk van Assen.

“In Susan Sontag’s 1977 collection of essays On Photography, she writes that “In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.” Photographs also include the embedded though not necessarily clear motives of their makers, and can be edited by skilled retouchers such as those Stalin used to airbrush away official enemies, or by Photoshop. And while widely-accepted as documents of truth photographs might alternately be tokens of falsity. Moving beyond the territory of ‘the self’ that many artists are anchored to, Reid and Pottle, in the work of ‘New Topographies’, manage the abovementioned risks to formulate cogent and ethical ‘responsibility statements’ about global warming for the greater good.”

> Robert Tombs in “Re-examining Landscape,” ‘New Topographies’: Barry Pottle and/et Leslie Reid, 2026