In this collection of correspondences between photographer Jordan Tate and art history professor Dr. Abigail Susik, nearly four months of exchanges are paired together with a selection of Tate’s own work, which takes the landscape as subject matter.

Within their correspondence, Tate and Susik debate the idea of the landscape and its historic representation and consideration by artists, philosophers, and writers alike, grappling with the factors that shape specific considerations, and the messages that certain representations are coded to convey. The body of Tate’s work presented within this publication is as much apart of the correspondence, and subsequent debate, as any of the philosophical or art historical debates, giving the reader, and viewer, the opportunity to engage with Tate and Susik’s critical view of the photographic work being considered.