Stuart Franklin. Alberi

Your excellence, the Tree; the plant entity most adored, contemplated, used, protected, destroyed, worked by man, and photographed in this book by one of its most sensitive portraitists, Stuart Franklin (Great Britain, 1956). Patiently, Franklin has searched for trees and photographed them throughout the continents, capturing their symbolic and social value within the most diverse and far-reaching cultures.
Franklin's photographs invite us to reflect upon the relationship, at times fertile and archetypal; at times dramatic and contradictory, between man and his habitat. His keen eye brings our attention to a black and white itinerary, powerful and ironic, poetic and lashing,
curious and emotionally consuming, in the same vein as the pure journalistic style of the Magnum Photos school. This book invites us to keep in mind that every destroyed tree is inevitably the loss of a small piece of our life