PARADISE INC.

"In a world saturated with images—where beauty is too often divorced from meaning and atrocity reduced to content—Paradise Inc. by Guillaume Bonn offers something far rarer: a work of moral clarity, radical honesty, and necessary discomfort. At once elegy and indictment, memoir and investigation, it is a searing visual and textual reckoning with colonial legacies, environmental collapse, and the politics of representation." —Alessia Glaviano, Vogue "The time has come to face the facts, as east Africa’s age-old natural landscapes and wildlife habitats inexorably disappear. Paradise Inc. is therefore a requiem, and perhaps even an epitaph, but it is also a personal plea by Guillaume for the book’s readers to shake off their illusions and to see things as they really are, before it really is too late."—Jon Lee Anderson, The Gentlemen's Journal  "Guillaume Bonn’s photographs, part of a 20-year project to document the growing clash between animals and humans in Kenya, Somalia, Botswana and South Africa, tell a different story."—Steve Bloomfield, The Observer "For three decades, photographer Guillaume Bonn has traversed East Africa, documenting how civilization’s quintuple threats of modernity, development, population growth, armed conflict, and climate change have imperiled the region’s wildlife, habitats, and human communities […] The result is an epic new book, Paradise Inc. […] The photographs, often in jarring juxtaposition, underscore the cruel bargain of Western 'progress'—and the paradoxical damage brought on by a half century of conservation and preservation efforts." —David Friend, Vanity Fair “[…] Photojournalist Guillaume Bonn’s haunting images expose the dark side of Africa’s wildlife havens, which are increasingly falling victim to unchecked industrialism […] Bonn’s images expose the failure of our conservation model—one that isolates wildlife instead of integrating it.”—Elena Clavarino, Air Mail "There may be a cluster of Masai giraffes standing among acacia trees in the long grass of the Maasai Mara National Reserve on the cover, but don’t be mistaken by thinking Guillaume Bonn’s Paradise Inc. is a wildlife photography book. A photojournalist, whose hard-hitting photographic stories have appeared regularly in The New York Times and Vanity Fair, Bonn presents an elegiac, highly critical document of the document of the decline of the great East African Wilderness."—Graeme Green,Travel Africa “[T]rue to its promise, the book is filled with wonderful images of wildlife juxtaposed with urban decay, poverty, soldiers, thrilling landscapes, evidence of complicated and confusing politics. A great many of the images are both beautiful and troubling, and the text lays out some of the issues. […] the overall effect is convincing."—W. Scott Olsen, FRAMES "(Guillaume Bonn's) images combine beauty with harsh reality, raising hte question of how economic expansion, population growth and urbanisation can be reconciled with the fates of indigenous peoples, animals and ecological diversity." —Leica Fotographie International "This is a book I have been waiting to read, and the author is the person I have been longing to talk to. Guillaume, you raise very pertinent issues that are not new to the world but rather have been ignored by the world." —Ezekiel Ole Katato, Maasai elder and culturalist, from the foreword