NACHTMEER – Photobook
Published by Nearest Truth Editions, 2024

A twilight descent into the Sonoran Desert, where exterior landscape slips into an interior, psychological terrain. Moonlit forms, shifting geologies, and desert textures trace a world of liminality and transformation.

Edition details
88 pages
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in
Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum Premium White, 140gsm
4-color UV offset
Edition of 300 + 50 special editions
Printed and bound in Italy
ISBN 979-8-218-45749-5


Credits
Images: Cornelia Pierce
Design: Giulia Boccarossa
Art Direction: Cornelia Pierce and Brad Feuerhelm
Soundtrack: Troy Pierce (12 tracks, 48 minutes; code included)


Availability
Order direct
Also available at:
Arcana Books, Los Angeles · Bildband, Berlin · Sentanta Books, UK · Charcoal Book Club, US · Wolf Books, NL · Softcover, Vienna · Nearest Truth Editions (online)


About Nachtmeer
Cornelia Pierce’s moon-drenched views of the Arizona desert move between the familiar and the strange. At first the terrain appears recognisable, but as the sequence unfolds, the landscape reveals itself as interior—what seems like exterior geology is charged with a deep psychological undertow. The more you return, the more the forms shift and resist certainty.

Nachtmeer moves through the twilight of the Sonoran Desert, where the exterior landscape slips into something interior. What first appears familiar becomes unstable and psychological, geology charged with memory, transformation, and ambiguity. The accompanying soundtrack by Troy Pierce extends this nocturnal terrain into sound, deepening the book’s liminal atmosphere.