Sam Doctor <br>Temporal Terrains
A research-driven photobook exploring lost and traumatised places. Sam Doctor’s photographic practice ruminates on humanity’s fragile relationship with the environment by researching specific instances of catastrophe, desecrated landscapes, and the effects of technology and industry.The publication Temporal Terrains contemplates Doctor’s work over the last decade and offers an opportunity to follow the threads that run through different photographic series. It explores the traces and permutations of environmental decline, playing out on contested sites from Vietnam to Japan, from Thailand to Australia. These photographs, most of which have not been exhibited before, accumulate into an immersive but damning narrative: they capture the incidental quality of the ongoing trauma of colonialism and the manipulation of the natural world. The sites harbour multiple temporalities: once privileged sites of capitalist extractivism and power generation, valued and vaunted by nation states and civi