This is the new edition of photographer Marc Wilson’s photobook; The Last Stand.

It has been redesigned in a larger, soft cover format with interesting binding; lay-flat pages that show Marc’s images to their full potential. I always liked the previous casebound version, but this one is stonking.

Marc’s work reflects the histories and stories of military conflict and the memories held in the landscape itself. Over four years, Marc documented some of the physical remnants of the second world war on the coastlines of the UK and northern Europe, focusing on remaining military defence structures and their place in the landscape that surrounds them.

The book contains over 90 stunning landscape photographs, all shot in a subdued, diffused light. Three paper stocks from G. F Smith are used: Colorplan Cobalt blue for the cover, two text sections on Colorplan Real Grey; images and main text on Munken Design Lynx Rough Natural White. A thing of beauty in your hands.

In a break from other books from two&two press, the cover holds the title plus a line drawing of one structure—at Wissant, Nord-Pas-de-Calais—by illustrator Jane Randfield. Both text and image are foil-blocked.

For more information head to Marc Wilson