From longtime Shambhala Sun contributor Lynn Davis comes Space Project, a new book of photographs. On Wednesday, December 9th at 6pm, Lynn will be at the New York Public Library for a conversation with bestselling author Alan Weisman (who provided the book’s foreword.) The focus of this free public event will be the architectural legacy of the space industry: What should be done to document and preserve these extraordinary structures from abandonment and ruin? Could preservation and restoration make some of these locations into major attractions and destinations?

For more information, visit her website.

One of the foremost photographers in the world (and the partner of another Shambhala Sun friend, Rudy Wurlitzer, whose novel The Drop Edge of Yonder was Time Out New York’s Best Book of 2008), Lynn was chosen in our September 2009 issue as one of the eight finest artists to appear in our thirty years of publishing:

Traveling around the world to photograph natural and man-made monuments and sacred sites, Lynn Davis brings her negatives home and creates monumental black-and-white prints 40 inches square or larger, with subtle tones, often using gold or selenium. We have featured several portfolios of Davis’ work, and profiled her in our January, 2008 issue. Even on the small scale of a magazine page, her photos communicate the majesty, as well as the decay, of sacred sites such as the pyramids of Egypt, Chinese pagodas, and the ruins of Buddhist temples and monuments. Her photographs of natural phenomena such as icebergs, rivers, geysers, and waterfalls have the same stately beauty as the ancient architecture she photographs. Pictured here is “Iceberg #1, Disko Bay, Greenland 1986″; the full range of her work is on display at lynndavisphotography.com

Click here to read 30 Years of Buddhism in America: Art and Artists and see work from the seven artists who, along with Lynn, represent the best from the Shambhala Sun.