Long after the wars are over, millions of land mines continue to maim and kill civilians all over the world.

In Minescape: Waging War Against Land Mines, artist and photojournalist Brett Van Ort shares a collection of photographs documenting the tragic consequences of leftover land mines from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. With unsettling photographs of deceptively innocent landscapes, and various types of land mines and clinically chilling prosthetic limbs and metal joints, Minescape reminds us of the lingering threats of war that often remain in times of peace.

Minescape is the first TED Book to be released in conjunction with a print edition, and will complement an art book to be published by Daylight Books in April 2013. This will also mark one of the first projects from the newly launched Daylight Digital. The TED Books version of Minescape pairs Van Ort's moving photographs and personal accounts with Joel Whitney's globe-trotting investigative essays as well as multimedia features that detail the continued impacts of land mines as well as innovative techniques for landmine detection, allowing photography lovers and academics alike to go beyond the images.