“Smoliansky’s depictions of trees are a forestry ranger’s nightmare and at the same time far too vulnerable to please the zealous conservationist. These photographs are about a type of vegetation that may once have been both magnificent and dignified – what remains of growth is both frustrated and defiant. They are not romantic pictures of virgin woods. No, instead they are places that have been consigned to oblivion, pre- or post-profitability. Impediments. Languishing land. Windfallen tree trunks or soon to be windfallen trunks that are nothing but upright poles, trunks that have grown into each other.”

—Gunnar D Hansson

Published by Librarynam, Stockholm, 2017
36 pages, 30×36 cm
25 black and white duplex illustrations
ISBN: 978 91 88113 06 1
Hardcover, as well as limited edition with print in slipcase