November 2025 16,8x24cm 148 pages + folded sheet 71,6 × 65,8 cm with book profiles and map ISBN 978-88-94895-86-5 Edited by Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi / OMNE Designed by Damiano Fraccaro / OTIUM Atlas Aquæ continues the research started by OMNE on the theme of nature, exploring the language and possibilities of contemporary photographic publishing. Following Index Naturae and Index Naturae. Revisited (Skinnerboox, 2023 and 2024), this new book explores the universe of water through an extensive selection of images taken from a bibliography of 68 photobooks published between 2018 and 2025.> The selected images, in their variety, investigate water in its states, manifestations, substance, and form. For this reason, the research is conceived as a laboratory of potential visual narratives, capable of conveying the complexity of a theme that is at once natural, cultural, and symbolic. Structured as a potential encyclopedic collection of images, Atlas Aquæ presents itself as a “book of books” that preserves the uniqueness of each voice without sacrificing the collective nature of the project. The structure of the volume follows a double alphabetical order, direct and reverse, generating a flow that, in its progression, destabilizes the organizing logic and transforms it into movement. Building on the idea of the atlas and some of its fundamental interpretations (Aby Warburg, Gerhard Richter), the journey proposed by Atlas Aquæ explores the complexity and variety of the approaches of the participating authors, offering a space for reflection capable of poetically combining science, politics, and the environment. Water, understood both as a flow and as a network of relationships, becomes an interpreter of contemporary thought: its dual nature as living matter and universal archetype makes it a privileged metaphor for readings of aesthetic, scientific, and political character.