| This thesis explores the work of photographer An-My Le and her latest photobook, Events Ashore (2014). Le combines landscape photography with military presence in a series of images that is both beautiful and transformative. To access this content, and truly understand it, requires a methodology of viewing. This methodology focuses on embodiment as a core strategy to understanding and internalizing the photobook. The natural and technological sublime is considered as a factor that can reach the viewer on a spiritual level and complicate the embodiment of images. Ritual is explored as a means of developing the connection between the viewer and the photograph, to understand the placement of the viewer and the weight of a human life. |
