Nowhere Far gathers fifteen years of Nicholas Hughes’s landscape work into six distinct series, published by GOST Books in 2017. The British photographer’s abstract and ethereal landscapes examine the space between the world people inhabit and that which nature claims as its own, sustaining a mood across bodies of work made at different times. Rather than documenting particular places, the book reads as one continuous argument about land and our distance from it.

The book opens with a foreword by Brett Rogers, and essays by Jay Griffiths and Martin Barnes accompany the sequence, giving the photographs room to be thought about rather than merely looked at. That structure suits a first monograph with this much accumulated material; the writing frames a long project without explaining the images away. Collectors drawn to contemporary landscape photography, and to books where printing and pacing are part of the meaning, will find the sequence holds together as an object, not just a survey.

The edition is clothbound with a screen-printed cover, 112 pages, and was held to 500 copies. For a collector, that combination of a long-gestating first monograph, a small run, and a considered physical production makes the book worth seeking out on its own terms. It sits within a recent strain of British landscape practice that uses abstraction and atmosphere to test what a photograph can still say about the natural world and our place in it.