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Shipwrecked (signed)

by Ekaterina Vasilyeva

Photographs: Ekaterina Vasilyeva

Publisher: selfpublished

110 pages

Pictures: 49 color pictures and 85 black and white pictures

Year: 2018

Price: 62 €

Comments: Designer Ekaterina Vasilyeva. Limited edition of 50 copies (numbered and signed). Handmade cover and binding. Size: 12 cm x 33 cmEach book cover is supplied by an individual photograph. First 1-30 book cover - original photos of 40-50 years ! Inside paper: Ozon Ivory 150 gr. Cover paper: Murillo 260 gr. Language: English

Collective memory probably exists. There are subtle threads connecting people, many of whom most likely are no longer with us today. I believe our aim, when we get our hands on a treasure, should be not to hide it but to show it to the world. I would like the story to sound mysterious: Say I found a chest with negatives from the forties and early fifties of the 20-th century made by an unknown boy from the UK and some comments on them. Say it was found on the seashore at low tide. That is because I do not want it to be as it is : that I simply bought an archive at a flea market in London. The archive is a living organism belonging both to the present and future and the past as well. Therefore I felt a need to include the found archive into my own one. I lived for a relatively long time in the UK and, in a way, that place began to feel like home.

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