The book spans 199 pages and contains approximately 120 color photographs. It is arranged neither geographically nor chronologically, but thematically. Images from Haiti sit next to images from Kenya; Istanbul flows into the Rio Grande.
Alex Webb's The Suffering of Light (2011) is a career-spanning monograph that gathers 30 years of his pioneering color photography. The book’s title is inspired by a Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Colors are the deeds and suffering of light" Core Structure and Content