Latest Release
New panoramas from the archive, released for the first time
Koos van der Lende
I want to give my best. It is not about quantity, only quality.
— Koos van der Lende, on the Aloe mawii, NiassaThe Latest Release brings together panoramas from Koos van der Lende's archive that have never been offered before. Half of them come from a single expedition: two months alone in the Niassa National Park in the far north of Mozambique, among granite inselbergs, tsetse flies and poachers, at the very end of the dry season.
The rest take in the Luangwa River in Zambia, the Fish River Canyon in Namibia, the Namaqua National Park and the marula veld of Limpopo. Each is a single moment, waited for and prepared for, sometimes for days.
Between the works are his field notes, on preparation, patience and light in wild country.
- Works8 panoramas
- PlacesMozambique, Zambia, Namibia and South Africa
- Made onSlide film, 6 × 17 cm
- Edition25 of each, signed and numbered
- Sizes80 to 140 cm wide
- PricesFrom $980
The Works
Koos van der Lende
For close to two decades Koos van der Lende has travelled Southern Africa with a panoramic film camera, planning each picture days ahead, where the sun will fall, at what time, at what angle. He still works on traditional slide film, which is processed and scanned to make prints of rare quality.
His archive runs from the Namib to the Indian Ocean. The Latest Release is drawn from it for this site, alongside the Classic Collection, Sacred Forests, Evidence of Mankind, the Water Pear Tree Collection, the Baobab Collection and Solitary Survivor.
Moments of Grace, eighteen years of his panoramas from Angola to the Seychelles, a linen cloth covered, hand assembled book in a handmade leather pouch, opening to a full metre wide.