Anchor in the Landscape begins with a fact that is also a history: the olive tree in Palestine is a totem of identity, culture, and resistance. It supports more than 100,000 Palestinian families and stands at the centre of traditions. It has also been a target of destruction and theft. Since 1967, 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been destroyed by Israeli authorities and settlers.

Over eighteen months, Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez photographed olive trees in the Occupied Territories, many of them thousands of years old. Their portraits are studied and absorbing. Each tree appears as a fixed point in a historic and transforming landscape that is constantly disputed, altered, and increasingly destroyed. The photographs do not ask the trees to speak for themselves; they record what remains.

Published by MACK in 2024, the book collects these portraits across 128 pages. It is a debossed printed hardcover, 24 x 29.8 cm. The form suits the subject: individual trees are given room, and the sequence lets a reader register both endurance and loss. The book’s witness is specific—to the presence and resilience of the Palestinian people and their relationship with the land—rather than general.

For a serious collector, Anchor in the Landscape deserves attention for its historical weight and its collaborative photographic approach. The subject is not remote or abstract; it is land, livelihood, and memory under pressure. Broomberg and Gonzalez work as photographers together, and the book’s restrained presentation keeps the emphasis on the trees. It is a document of a landscape being remade by force, and of what persists within it.