Heiress presents the highly-anticipated photobook by Carl Terver, Glory to the Sky, now available for pre-order.
Glory to the Sky is a photobook of 35 original photographs accompanied by micro-essays (personal and photography writing) by the essayist Terver whose writing engages criticisms in literature, music, and film. His first photography writing “The Lessons of Hue Editing” was published in 2021 in Afapinen. In this new photobook—which he claims was a discovery even to him—he has expanded that vision of writing about images, further stretching his boundaries. And he has so much to say.
In grid above: Glass Mug, A Moniwata Effigy, Glory to the Sky, A Convergence, The Case for Order, Inanimate Waiting, and Danger II
Glory to the Sky is described as “short personal essays on photography.” In it, Terver examines our ways of seeing, celebrates the beauty of the accidental and coincident, and discusses man’s propensity for wastefulness. This is a new kind of writing in mainstream and contemporary Nigerian literary space, following in the tradition of writers like Emmanuel Iduma. Glory to the Sky is a pleasure to read and a masterful hand at work.
Carl Terver, who has been published in Goethe-Institut Nigeria, The Republic, OlongoAfrica, The Stockholm Review, and Afapinen, is one of Nigeria’s postmodernist writers today engaged in critical thought.
You can now buy the photobook, which has been published. Click below.