Thomas Sauvin
Specializing in vernacular Chinese photography, Thomas Sauvin is a French collector and artist based between Paris and Beijing. His publications include the Silvermine albums — nominated for the Paris Photo-Aperture Award (2013); Until Death Do Us Part — designated as one of the best photobooks in 2015 by Martin Parr; and Xian — recently acquired by the French National Library and the Tate............................................................................................................................................................................
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Photographs by Giorgio Di Noto
This highly addictive book unveils the images used by drug dealers in the submerged part of the Internet — The darknet — to promote their products. They will sometimes use candid stock images drawn from the public domain, which we discover as we open the book. Sometimes, they will also shoot more explicit images, which are printed in invisible ink and can only be viewed under ultraviolet light.
The Iceberg takes the viewer into an unusual visual experience to discover disturbing images drawn from the deep web.
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Photographs by Nadine Schlieper and Robert Pufleb
The one and only text that should be written about Alternative Moons appears on the very last page of this terrific book.
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After several years spent in London for her studies, Imano moved back to her native country of Japan. In order to confront her loneliness, she started creating simple snapshot collages where she appears twice in the same image. The book is fictional, and we know it from the start, yet one can’t avoid feeling the endearing connection between her and herself.
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