Understanding a Photograph

Edited and introduced by the award-winning author of "The Ongoing Moment", this is an inspiring collection of John Berger's groundbreaking essays on photography.


John Berger (Author)
John Berger was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G. , which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.

Geoff Dyer (External Editor)
Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, including But Beautiful , which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage , which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction, Dyer is a regular contributor to many publications in the UK and the US. He lives in California.