In 2003, Frank Gohlke and Joel Sternfeld were commissioned to photograph the borough of Queens, New York, a place often described as one of the densest concentrations of ethnic diversity in the world. Over the course of more than a year, they worked across the entire borough, from neighborhood bodegas to the far edges of its boundaries, and returned with a two‑part visual study that refuses easy conclusions. Their extended engagement gradually matured into a specific theory of landscape photography, one in which landscape becomes a visible manifestation of the invisible emotions of its inhabitants – a claim that gives this book its conceptual gravity. Gohlke’s Queens is a terrain of streets, houses, fences, gardens, parklands, shorelines, and waste spaces, where human design perpetually contends with the forces that undo it: unruly vegetation, weather, rot, decay, and the calculated “creative destruction” of a commercial culture. Sternfeld, in contrast, focuses on indigenous shops, restaurants, mosques, and temples – places often tucked into homes or converted factories, carrying a sense of a home country that may exist more in the mind than in actuality. Together, these two lenses do not simply inventory a place; they record how a place is invested with longing, memory, and daily struggle. The book includes an essay by the writer Suketu Mehta, who has chronicled the immigrant experience with keen insight. His text accompanies the photographs and helps the volume become a powerful instrument for understanding a landscape that otherwise appears to defy interpretation. Published by Steidl in 2016, this hardcover edition of 152 pages presents the work in a deliberate sequence that lets the two photographic voices speak separately and in counterpoint. For the serious collector, the book matters not only as a document of contemporary Queens but as an artist’s book that advances a working theory of landscape – an uncommon collaborative project where two established photographers refine a shared idea through their distinct ways of seeing.