Steve McQueen To Publish ‘Bounty’ Pictures Collection In New E-book 

Photographs captured by Steve McQueen as a part of his common ‘Bounty’ exhibition collection have been collated and tailored into a brand new e-book assortment to be printed this month by MACK. 

Also titled ‘Bounty’, the e-book will function all 47 photographs from the exhibition, which was based mostly round meditative photographs McQueen took of the attractive flora native to the Caribbean island of Grenada, the place the artist-filmmaker has ancestry. 

Taken on a visit to the island in the summertime of 2024, the pictures function a bodily illustration of the trendy world’s contradictions. Despite their magnificence, the vegetation have witnessed the island’s brutal previous, from the disappearance of its indigenous individuals to the violent colonial occupations fueled by the enslavement of Africans individuals.

“What has been constant in the landscape is the beauty of the flowers. These plants have been a marvel in a landscape traumatized by colonialism and slavery,” M^cQueen mentioned in a press release on the time of the exhibition. “Sometimes the most horrible things happen in the most beautiful places; it’s perverse.”

The photographs shall be printed alongside a brand new written piece by the author and poet Dionne Brand. The assortment can even embrace a duplicate of the late Saint Lucian author Derek Walcott’s poem ‘The Bounty.’ First printed in 1997, the poem is an elegy to Walcott’s mom and served because the central piece of his ninth solo poetry assortment, the primary e-book he printed after successful the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.

McQueen’s ‘Bounty’ is printed by MACK and shall be obtainable in keeping with his first solo exhibition within the Netherlands, the place he has labored and lived for a lot of a long time. That exhibition is titled  ‘Atlas’ and can run on the De Pont Museum in Tilburg from 21 March 2026 to 30 August 2026.

Check out among the photographs from ‘Bounty’ under.