Author: Pashby, Laura

Weather

Published on 29 August 2024 by Simon & Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 256 pages, B-w photos as chapter openers, c. 10. Poss 1 x 8pp plate section
216 x 135 | 0g

At first, I didnt find fog fog found me.

Liminal, transformative and increasingly elusive far from a simple cloud of water droplets, fog is a state of mind. As mist drifted through a copse of trees, turning a familiar place strange and otherworldly, Laura Pashby snapped a photograph and an obsession began.

Pashby hunts for fog, walks and swims in it, explores its often pivotal role in literature, mythology and history, as well as its environmental significance. There has been a 50 per cent drop in ‘fog events’ in the past fifty years, fog is drifting away without us noticing and the ecological impact could be calamitous.

As she journeys to the foggiest places she can find,