Until Death Do Us Part by Thomas Sauvin

Until Death Do Us Part by Thomas Sauvin focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of unprecedented ingenuousness. This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death walk hand in hand. These photos come from the Beijing Silvermine project, an archive of 850,000 negatives salvaged over the last ten years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing. Beijing Silvermine offers a unique photographic portrait of the Chinese capital and the life of its inhabitants in the decade following the Cultural Revolution. 53 x 83 x 21 mm 108 pages Hardcover with a cigarette box Artist: Thomas Sauvin (Beijing Silvermine) Published By: Jiazazhi Press Until Death Do Us Part is nominated as one of the best photobooks in Fotobookfestival Kassel 2016 Until Death Do Us Part is selecte