Heavenwards is Nicolas Faure s answer to Rainer Maria Rilke s question in the first Duino Elegy (1912):  Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders? At first sight Faure s photographs seem to show nothing but forests, rivers and light, but in each picture there is something hiding a human being, an animal or perhaps even an angel as the book s subtitle suggests. In Rilke s words,  Perhaps there remains some tree on a slope that we can see again each day: there remains to us yesterday s street, and the thinned-out loyalty of a habit that liked us, and so stayed, and never departed. Nicolas Faure was born in Switzerland in 1949 and since 2000 has taught at the Ecole cantonale d art in Lausanne. A self-taught artist, Faure has exhibited and published widely; Steidl released his Landscape A in 2006.