Sorrow to Elation Our Shared Humanity

One man's photographic journey through the human condition helps us to see ourselves and our world in a whole new way. Over the last twenty years, photographer Bill Voxman has traveled the world with his wife, Joanne, documenting the human condition from Bhutan to Peru, Armenia to Italy. Through his stunning black-and-white images, Voxman has set out to "bring to light such diverse universal aspects of the human condition as joy, contemplation, alienation, socialization, bravery, and desperation-features that transcend geographic boundaries." The results of Voxman's worldwide journey are found in this poetic collection, Sorrow to Elation. "I hope that the images in this book will contribute to a greater understanding of and pleasure in the shared humanity that unites us," the photographer writes. Intimate and moving, Sorrow to Elation reminds us that we each have an important part to play in the drama we call "humanity."