Maria Lax: Some Kind of Heavenly Fire

Maria Lax’s small, compact book takes readers to regions succumbed to UFO fever in Northern Finland in the 1960s. Lax’s poetic journey to a truly peculiar historical moment begins with her lost grandfather’s scrapbook and notes. The willingness to believe in extra-terrestrials exist in parallel with the fears generated by the structural changes in agricultural life of the time. The book skillfully combines different materials – mysterious night imagery, old family album photos, scraps held together by tape – to create a concise and visually compellind world outside of everyday experiences.

Some Kind of Heavenly Fire is a Photobook Award 2020 finalist.