40 duotone plates featuring black and white photographs that play with focus, distortion, and abstraction. "A key figure in contemporary Dutch photography, Machiel Botman has always photographed as a way to understand life. He is not restrained by photographic conventions, but rather welcomes mistakes and surprises that combine with the highly personal nature of his subjects… Like his individual photographs, Botman's books and writings are autobiographical and chronicle the stages of his life, but they do not follow a linear narrative. One Tree, the artist's third monograph, comprises a collection of images that are at once dark and hopeful, challenging and inviting. The book ends with Botman's short story, The hawk & the cat."—Statement from the publisher. Hardcover book with photographically illustrated cloth cover; housed in a cardboard slipcase. Edition of 1500.