Published by MACK BOOKS in 2014, Nick Waplington’s *Settlement* addresses the Jewish settlements of the West Bank through an extended photographic examination of place, identity, and political attachment. Waplington lived in Jerusalem from 2008 to 2013 and visited more than 350 settlements, from substantial towns such as Ariel to small outposts made up of only a few caravans.

The book’s subject is not treated as a distant geopolitical abstraction. Its account is grounded in the built environment and in the people who inhabit it: landscapes shaped by construction, occupation, registration, and surveillance, alongside portraits of settlers whose backgrounds extend across the Jewish diaspora. Many of those photographed arrived from the United States, South Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom, the former Soviet Union, and elsewhere, bringing questions of migration and belonging into a territory already marked by conflict with Palestinian society and by tensions within Israel itself.

That breadth of observation gives *Settlement* its particular force. The settlements are presented not as a single uniform category but as a varied and changing network whose exact extent is difficult to fix, since building and demolition continue across the region. Waplington’s sustained attention makes the book a study of how ideology becomes visible in roads, houses, temporary structures, and everyday lives, while preserving the contradictions that such a landscape contains.

For collectors of contemporary photobooks concerned with documentary practice and contested history, *Settlement* merits attention as a substantial English-language hardcover of 188 pages, issued under ISBN 9781907946523. Its value lies in the scale of the undertaking and in the way photographic description holds together topography, biography, and the unsettled political meaning of land.