ロンドンを拠点に活動するフィンランド人アーティスト、マリア・ラックス（Maria Lax）の作品集。アメリカの出版社「NAZRAELI PRESS」が手がけるプリント付き作品集シリーズ『ONE PICTURE BOOK TWO』の第36巻。

全100タイトルをもって完結した『ONE PICTURE BOOK』のアップグレード版である本シリーズ『ONE PICTURE BOOK TWO』は、装丁、サイズともにリニューアル。各タイトル500部限定発行、約127x178mm（約5x7インチ）のサイン入りプリントが付属し、前作と同様100タイトルで完結予定。

本シリーズにおける作者の初の作品集となる本書では、故郷、記憶、場という概念を探求している。海外で過ごした長い年月の後に故郷に帰った作者は、かつてそこにあった自分が知る故郷はもう消え、全ては自身の記憶の中のみに存在していることに気がつく。自宅と呼べる場所を探して漂流しているように感じながらも、本作の制作へと歩みを進めた。本書に収められたイメージ群は、馴染みあるものが異質に見える世界を表現し、差し潮の渦中にぶつかり合い砕け散る波が我々を寂しさという大海原へと引き摺り込む。

Our first book with Finnish artist Maria Lax explores the ideas of home, memory and place. Returning to her hometown after many years abroad, Lax realized that the place she once knew no longer in existed — except in her memory. Feeling as though she was drifting in search for a place to call home, Lax set out to create Taken by the Tide. The images in this book present a world where the familiar appears alien, and crashing waves from the rising tide pull one further out to the open sea of loneliness.

Maria Lax is a Finnish artist based in London. Her work deals with the concept of identity, belief and modern folklore through photography and film, and is exhibited internationally. Lax was a winner of British Journal of Photography’s Female in Focus awards, 2019 and a finalist in the BJP Portrait of Humanity, 2020. She was a PHMuseum Photography Grant Finalist in 2020; selected as one of the ‘Best New Talent of Photo London 2020’ by the Guardian; and received the Finnish Art Promotion Centre’s One Year Grant in 2021.

One Picture Book Two: an upgraded, upscaled follow-up to NAZRAELI PRESS' much-loved One Picture Book series of artists’ books. Each title is limited to 500 numbered copies, and includes a removable, signed, original print measuring approximately 5x7 inches. The books are slightly larger than those in the original series, with a fresh design and upgraded materials.