17 18 19 - Thomas Sauvin
17 18 19 - Thomas Sauvin
17 18 19 - Thomas Sauvin
17 18 19 - Thomas Sauvin
17 18 19 - Thomas Sauvin
17 18 19 - Thomas Sauvin
17 18 19 - Thomas Sauvin
17 18 19 - Thomas Sauvin
17 18 19 - Thomas Sauvin

17 18 19

Thomas Sauvin

VOID

Year

2019

Country

Greece

City

Athens

Publisher

Thomas Sauvin

Designer

João Linneu

Printer

Mas Matbaa

Binding type

Mas Maatba

ISBN

978-618-84341-4-1

Notes

Printed with silver ink on black paper

“The series ‘17 18 19’ is drawn from a bag of negative film salvaged from a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing in 2010. The bag contained an archive of over 15,000 scratched black and white negatives, shot at one of the city's detention centers between 1991 and 1993.”

Thomas Sauvin kept the negatives presented in this series un-scanned for almost a decade. Even though the artist was intrigued by the content, the risk of scanning official Chinese disposed material could put in jeopardy the (by then) starting Silvermine Project. For this reason, this material was always edited by the artist in its raw negative form. Kept in such a way in the presented book.

17 18 19’ is an investigative journey on the practice of those police department photographers and their aesthetic, practice and understanding of photography, composition and art direction.

Who are those people? What are the stories behind each item? Why 17 18 19? Are questions that the reader has to solve. As if the book is a piece of evidence itself. Putting the reader in the investigator’s shoes.

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