Pain (Signed and numbered, edt of 500)

Toni Amengual
Pain (Signed and numbered, edt of 500)

Photographs: Toni Amengual

Publisher: Self-published

240 pages

Year: 2014

Price: 180 €

Comments: Softcover, 21 x 15 cm. Signed and numbered! Design by Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martín. Winner of PhotoEspaña 2015 Best Self-published Book Award. NEVER OPEN!

PAIN is Toni Amengual’s first book. Edited by himself, PAIN is a portrait of the current situation of crisis and social cutbacks in Spain.

All the pictures in the book were taken with a mobile device camera between 2010 and 2012. The final book format is presented two years later, 2014, when politicians and mass media are devoted to convey an optimistic message of recovery. In spite of these messages, the images of the suffering population in the streets presented in the book are still as current as when they were taken. The book is composed by 120 photographs bound in 240 pages and folded in the Japanese way, thus to get to them the pages have to be torn up.