In this evocative work of image and text, physician-scientist and photographer Bob Farese, Jr., explores the profound connection between water and life. Farese’s book invites viewers to rediscover water as the elemental force that sustains existence—a baptism into the medium that makes all living things possible. Farese remarks, “The shape of water is in us and in all living things: fluid, permissive, persistent. It fills crevasses, it buoys structures, it creates form. As beings shaped by water, we carry the emotional potential of its quiet humility and its immense power. We are, in moments, turbulent oceans, placid lakes, or flowing as effortlessly as a stream.” Water’s unique life-giving and life-sustaining properties make it the perfect medium that allows us, and the flora and fauna we share Earth with, to exist. Through abstract, lyrical photographs paired with short texts that call attention to our inextricable relationship to water, A Perfect Medium shows that water is not simply as a resource, but an intimate, essential presence within and around us.
Books
A Perfect Medium
$50.00
Clothbound
9.125 x 12 inches
144 pages
65 color illustrations
ISBN: 978-1-969303-02-9
About the Author
Bob Farese, Jr., is a physician and scientist whose work bridges medicine and cell biology. Working within leading institutions including University of California at San Francisco, Harvard University, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, his scientific research has illuminated fundamental processes of biology and physiology that underlie diseases of metabolism and neurodegeneration.
Farese has also cultivated a photography practice, and his first photobook, Am I Not Light (2021), captured the emotions of arrival and belonging through images and verse. A Perfect Medium is his second book.