Black Garden is the second book in Jason Eskenazi’s acclaimed Black Garden Trilogy, delving into the expansive geographical and mythological world once known to the ancient Greeks. Captured between 2001 and 2017 across Turkey, Greece, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, and beyond, the images investigate the persistent dichotomy between the East and the West. Eskenazi moves beyond simple documentation to explore universal themes of duality: the masculine and feminine, the domestic and the wild, and the sacred and the profane. The book is physically divided in half by a massive six-page double gatefold seascape at its center, acting as a metaphorical horizon between these opposing worlds. With 154 tritone photographs, including nine breathtaking panoramics, the work documents a civilization grappling with its own myths and the harsh realities of war, subjugation, and survival.