Zed Nelson spent six years across fourteen countries building this project. The photographs document something specific and unsettling: the manufactured “nature” we’ve constructed as real nature retreats — indoor rainforests, artificial ski slopes, zoo habitats dressed as wilderness, safari parks with piped birdsong. The project won the 2025 Sony World Photography Award — the highest award in the competition — and the Lucie Photo Book Prize.
Nelson is a VII Foundation photographer whose earlier work includes Gun Nation and A Portrait of Hackney; his solo exhibition history runs from Tate Britain to the National Portrait Gallery to the V&A. The book is 196 pages, 75 colour photographs, 254 × 300mm, casebound in Colorado cloth with a foil-embossed title, printed on Fedrigoni stock in the UK by Guest Editions. Ten per cent of profits go to Friends of the Earth. Seventy-five images that function simultaneously as documentary record and genuinely uncomfortable argument. Published May 2025.
£60 — guesteditions.com