« KA-BOOM » by Andrea Botto is a fictional explosive manual in which sourced vintage photographs encounter staged do-it-yourself explosive construction images, with the photographs Andrea Botto has shot of real non-military explosions. The result is a sophisticated enquiry of photography’s contemporary status, in which numerous questions are raised and no simple answers are given. » from « Photos as text » by Ilaria Bonacossa, published in Andrea Botto « KA-BOOM The Explosion of Landscape », Editions Bessard, Paris.