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The book by French artist and collector Thomas Sovan "Until Death Do Us Part" focuses on the unexpected role of cigarettes in Chinese weddings. As a token of gratitude, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each invited man.
The bride and groom are then invited to play various cigarette smoking games with unprecedented ingenuity. This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death go hand in hand. All photos are part of the Thomas Sovan "Beijing Silvermine" archive.
About the author:
Toma Sovan was born in Paris in 1983. He is a collector, artist and publisher who works with found photography. He lives between Paris and Beijing. In 2009, he created the Beijing Silvermine archive, which numbers over 850,000 anonymous photographs taken between 1985 and 2005.
His work has been shown in many prestigious institutions around the world such as: the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago (2014); Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts in (2015); Guangzhou Art Museum (2017) and the Nicephorus Niepce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône (2019). He has participated in exhibitions at festivals such as: Format (2013), Great Britain; Paris Photo (2016), France; Imag Vevey Festival, Switzerland (2020).
Toma Sovan won the Exhibition of the Year award at the Lianzhou Photo Festival in 2013. His photo books have been nominated for the most prestigious photo book awards: Apercher and Paris Photo Foundation (2013,2019); Photo Festival Spain (2020); Kassel Photobook Festival (2013, 2016); Deutsche Borse (2014, 2017) and others.
Over the past seven years, Thomas has published ten photo books with the Archive of Modern Conflict, UK; Jiazazhi, China; Skinnerboox, Italy; The M Editions, France; Void, Greece, as well as self-published books. His publications include the collections of Tate Modern in London, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Library of France.
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