A decade of the wild, bound. The first monograph from Mital Patel gathers eleven years of work into a single, definitive volume.
500 artist copies. Signed and numbered. Very limited.
From the ice of Antarctica to the plains of Kenya, States of Nature is the distillation of more than 100,000 photographs into the 180 that endure. Some were made in minutes; some took days.
"They are not just pictures of the way things look, but chronicles of experience — fleeting, distinct, and unrepeatable." Phillip Prodger · Formerly Head of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, London
One hundred thousand photographs. One hundred and eighty made it in.
The first edition is limited to 500 artist copies, each signed and numbered by the artist. Waitlist members receive first access, with the option of a signed copy and a companion print.
Printed and bound in Italy.
Bound copies arrive October 2026.
October 17 — Debut at the Rhinory Foundation "Horns for Hope" Gala, Fredericksburg, Texas, where Mital receives the Catalyst for Conservation Award.
October / November — Presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair with Hirmer.
These photographs were made in places that are still wild. Some of them, barely.
Mital has worked alongside the Simba Trust in rural Kenya, Tembo Collection, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, the Tsavo Trust, and WildAid. The work and the conservation have run in parallel, not separately.
The book holds both.
Join the waitlist for first access to the signed, numbered first edition of States of Nature.