When you hear the word "desert," what do you think of? If you imagine more than just endless sand, heat, and emptiness, Jurgen Wettke's The Namib Desert is the perfect photo book for you. With an excellent eye for unusual structures and colors, Wettke invigorates our imagination and shows us that the desert is a place of unexpected variety. There are only a few landscapes on the earth like Namibia where shapes and colors change so rapidly while giving such an immediate feel for how our world originally came to be.

Jurgen Wettke has masterfully captured this ambivalence on film and preserved once-in-a-lifetime moments of ephemeral beauty.