Terre à l’Amende is Mark Power’s photographic study of Guernsey, published by GOST Books. The publisher lists the book as published in 2021 with 128 pages in hardback; another catalogue record gives a 2022 date and 112 pages. The photographs were made after a commission from the Guernsey Photography Festival, and the title comes from the French signs warning trespassers of a fine. Power encountered these signs across the island, along with walls and fences marking private land, and they reinforced his sense of himself as an outsider.

Guernsey markets itself as an idyllic holiday destination, but Power’s long walks led him toward a different account. He photographed the ordinary infrastructure of exclusion and the ambiguous landscapes those signs and barriers produce. The island’s political and territorial situation, complicated within the Channel Islands, informs the series without reducing it to a thesis. Power works in the documentary tradition while resisting picturesque habits. His photographs are patient, alert to incongruity, and willing to be unsettled by what they find.

The sequencing of the book turns a set of local observations into a sustained engagement with looking at a place that does not wish to be fully seen. Terre à l’Amende is a considered object: a hardback volume whose subject is the friction between image and territory. It rewards attention from anyone interested in contemporary British photography, in documentary practice that questions its own conventions, and in books that treat sequence and design as part of the work rather than as packaging.