The Ball of the Universe
New Release 2012!

The new book by Olivier Föllmi, unpublished photographs to discover extraordinary nature.



"The future belongs to the human Earthlings, stardust."
Hubert Reeves.

Lesson of wisdom inspired by Hubert Reeves, this recent photographic work of Olivier Föllmi offers a cosmic nature through photographs of Iceland, an island where the unpredictable elements rage.
The book revolves around a fundamental question and timeless: what is the place of man on Earth? As if the life was manifested on this planet there is a little less than four billion years, the appearance of the first humans is much more recent.
All species obey the natural laws of interdependence, except when Man plays the sorcerer's apprentice and creates environmental disasters, while at the same time mobilizing to save the planet.
However, in Iceland, the power of the elements, fire, air, water puts into perspective the importance of an environmental disaster on the lava fields and lands destroyed, life is born in the centuries ...
A miniature scale, Iceland shows that ecological Apocalypse would not change the laws of the universe of creation, destruction and rebirth.
This is not the planet must be saved in an emergency, is human, earthly interim host gets threatening.
To survive, he will have to learn to be in solidarity with other human beings, other living species.
He will have to apply to control its own technologies, to find harmony with nature.
The world's libraries are filled with these tips wisdoms.
It remains to apply the Human invited to stay the Earth, in the ballroom of the Universe.

Olivier Föllmi, Le Bal de l'Univers (The Ball of the Universe ) Published in French
Editeur : Les Éditions de La Martinière, parution du 18 octobre 2012.
Format cartonné 124 pages, relié.
ISBN : 978-2-7324-5593-8
Dimensions : 28,5 cm × 18,5 cm × 1,7 cm
Prix éditeur : 25 euros