Steve McQueen To Publish ‘Bounty’ Photography Series In New Book Collection 

Photographs captured by Steve McQueen arsenic portion of his celebrated ‘Bounty’ accumulation bid person been collated and adapted into a caller book postulation to beryllium published this period by MACK. 

Also titled ‘Bounty’, nan book will characteristic each 47 images from nan exhibition, which was based astir meditative photos McQueen took of nan beautiful plants autochthonal to nan Caribbean land of Grenada, wherever nan artist-filmmaker has ancestry. 

Taken connected a travel to nan land successful nan summertime of 2024, nan images service arsenic a beingness practice of nan modern world’s contradictions. Despite their beauty, nan plants person witnessed nan island’s sadistic past, from nan disappearance of its indigenous group to nan convulsive assemblage occupations fueled by nan enslavement of Africans people.

“What has been changeless successful nan scenery is nan beauty of nan flowers. These plants person been a marvel successful a scenery traumatized by colonialism and slavery,” McQueen said successful a connection astatine nan clip of nan exhibition. “Sometimes nan astir horrible things hap successful nan astir beautiful places; it’s perverse.”

The images will beryllium published alongside a caller written portion by nan writer and writer Dionne Brand. The postulation will besides see a transcript of nan precocious Saint Lucian writer Derek Walcott’s poem ‘The Bounty.’ First published successful 1997, nan poem is an elegy to Walcott’s mother and served arsenic nan cardinal portion of his ninth solo poesy collection, nan first book he published aft winning nan Nobel Prize for Literature successful 1992.

McQueen’s ‘Bounty’ is published by MACK and will beryllium disposable successful statement pinch his first solo accumulation successful nan Netherlands, wherever he has worked and lived for galore decades. That accumulation is titled  ‘Atlas’ and will tally astatine nan De Pont Museum successful Tilburg from 21 March 2026 to 30 August 2026.

Check retired immoderate of nan images from ‘Bounty’ below.