Richard Ehrlich’s Namibia Redux gathers a selection of the most compelling images from his 2008 monograph Namibia alongside several previously unpublished works from the same portfolio. Nazraeli Press, which published the original volume and notes that it sold out almost immediately, returns to that material here as number 35 in the One Picture Book Two series. The setting is the south-west coast of Africa, where Namibia lies between two vast deserts: a country of striking beauty and, less expectedly, one of the world’s primary sources of diamonds.

The photographs are not only grand landscape views. Ehrlich also photographed the interiors of houses now uninhabited and occupied by drifting sand, recording rooms where small signs of former inhabitants remain. Sand dunes shaped by the winds and colored by the prevailing light form the other strand. Colors, shapes and patterns, together with those domestic traces, are carefully observed, so that open desert and abandoned interiors can be read as related studies in light, accumulation and disappearance.

The volume runs to sixteen pages with thirteen four-color plates. For readers already familiar with Ehrlich’s Namibian work, the book sets known images alongside unpublished material drawn from the same portfolio, and the earlier monograph’s reception gives that reuse a particular point. No claims beyond the publisher’s own account of the 2008 book are needed to see why the material continues to hold attention.

The edition is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including an original 5 x 7 inch photograph signed by the artist. That signed print, specified for every copy, is the concrete feature most likely to matter to collectors, alongside the limitation itself and the access the book provides to a body of work whose previous printing is documented as having sold out.