A SINGLE word to sum up this book? Quirky. The magazine Outside publishes photographs sent in by readers as a back-page feature, “Parting Shot”. Some – see right – invite a double take, puzzling at first glance, followed by satisfaction as you work out what exactly is going on. Other images in the book look posed, but turn out to have been genuinely caught on the fly.
A woman flung out of a raft is backflipping as elegantly as an acrobat. One of the editors rang the photographer to check – and ask what happened next. Yes, it was a fluke and…
