
Let the Sun Beheaded Be
- Publisher
- Aperture
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 9781597114905
- Specifications
- Hardcover
21.59 x 27.94 cm
120 pages
English, French
Text by Clément Chéroux
In Let the Sun Beheaded Be, Gregory Halpern focuses on the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France with a complicated and violent colonial past. The work resonates with Halpern’s characteristic attention to the ways the details of a landscape and the people who inhabit it often reveal the undercurrents of local histories and experiences. Let the Sun Beheaded Be offers a visually striking depiction of place—as it has been worked on by the forces of nature, people, and events—as well as a thoughtful engagement with the complexities of photographing in foreign lands as an interloper.