At the Edge of the World

In 1996, the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr was convalescing from a serious operation in the mountains near Geneva known locally as 'the Edge of the World.' Having just come close to the very edge or end of his own existence, the idea came to Mohr to revisit places that had struck him in the past as being truly on the edge - remote in terms of common experience or geographical location - or both. This book is a record, in words and more than 90 black-and-white photographs, of Mohr's journeys to such places as Romania, Karachi, Manilla, Algeria, Lapland, and Nicaragua. It illuminates his ongoing concern with humanitarian issues as well as his bemused observations regarding clashes between international policy and local politics and personalities, between media hype and traditional magic.