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This book is the result of eight years spent around the Dead Sea, one of the most unique and beautiful places on Earth. A place where an old lesson was never learned. The title, Under Sodom Mountain, points to it. Not as a biblical story, but as part of the human condition. The same tension between beauty and destruction, between what we are given and what we do with it. The book moves between two states of the same place. At times, it shows the calm beauty of the Dead Sea Valley. At others, it reveals the ecological damage caused by human actions. It took almost two years to find a way to hold both together, so the damage does not take over the flow of calm and beauty, but makes it more visible and fragile. Within this language, the two stories begin to speak to each other. The beauty of the Dead Sea moves quietly through the pages. But when it meets the silver double spreads, something shifts. The same landscape begins to feel uneasy. It carries the trace of human choices. Carelessness. Short thinking. Quiet destruction. This idea continues in the physical form of the book. It is not only a photo book, but an art object. Designed by Teun van der Heijden and printed in Holland, it uses different papers. Silver offset printing appears on all double page spreads. The white margins are carefully adjusted to match the color balance of each image, creating a coherent visual frame that continues into the cover. A straight uncolored line is pressed into the cover. You can feel it. Every horizon in the book follows this line. One line One horizon One place to live The edition is limited to 400 copies