Landscape looms large in contemporary photography, but this book is less concerned with its place in a traditional genre than with the notable shift in practice over the last forty years, as photographers increasingly turn towards an investigation of territory and a methodical attention to its evolution. Through the medium's re-evaluation of visible appearances, spatial organisation is questioned and the image becomes a new form of geographical reflection, a laboratory of knowledge production, gathering reflections and historical and contemporary examples from photographers including John Davies, Sophie Ristelhueber, Bernard Plossu and Geoffroy Mathieu.