Large numbers of photo-tourists now flock to destinations that are dramatically shaped by the effects of global warming, increasing the traffic to capture a landscape that is rapidly and unnaturally changing.

“A Field Guide to Seeing New Land” attempts to observe the way in which photo-tourists are instructed to take photographs of their temporary surroundings for their personal albums and what compels the enthusiast photographer to travel to places in traumatic change.

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