Beyond here is nothing (Sealed copy)
.jpg)
Laura El-Tantawy
Beyond here is nothing (Sealed copy)
Photographs: Laura El-Tantawy
Text: Laura El-Tantawy
Publisher: Self-published
190 pages
Year: 2017
Comments: One publication consisting of three interwoven volumes opening in three directions. Books hand sewn and bound in hard case with Wibalin cover, 185 x 160 mm. First edition, 2017. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Design by SYB. Sealed copy.
“Enclosed between four walls, the sound of silence never seemed louder. It’s claustrophobic. I wait for the phone to ring, check for emails obsessively, eat everything out of the fridge. The hunger remains. I feel like if I dig my hand deep into my soul, I will find nothing. The awareness I am experiencing is unspeakable. Faces change when we meet. Is their solitude reflected in mine? There is an awkward silence.” Laura El-Tantawy.
Beyond Here Is Nothing is a photo-book object meditating on home. A place of belonging, a tranquil state of mind ; a nostalgic memory or an imaginary destination – home is a perpetual possibility El-Tantawy is journeying to reach. Her personal experience growing up in contrasting cultures is the window to an intimate and emotive visual exploration of the unsettling feeling of rootlessness, the mental burden of loneliness and the constant search for belonging in unfamiliar places. Drifting between the physical and the whimsical, the book reveals itself through layers of images and words. A mirror of dispositions. A living object harmonizing with time.
The innovative design by SYB, with three booklets folding out like a cross, allows the viewer to play with an endless compositions of images.
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
more books by Laura El-Tantawy
more books tagged »self published« | >> see all
-
SACRE (SIGNED LTD EDT)
by Elie Monferier
sold -
New York (SIGNED)
by Daisuke Yokota
sold -
(Copy) 80. The Scharze Mönch (EDT OF 15)
by Sayako Sugawara
sold -
London 2008 (ONLY 30 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Liam Tickner
sold -
A Sentimental Journey (First edition with green paper)
by Nobuyoshi Araki
Euro 6000 -
The Levee (signed)
by Sohrab Hura
sold
more books tagged »Syb« | >> see all
-
How Terry likes his coffee
by Florian van Roekel
sold -
Where Love is Illegal
by Robin Hammond
sold -
LA Drive-By (Signed)(BACK IN STOCK)
by Michael Lange
sold -
Edit Beijing (with a signed c-print)
by Guy Tillim
Euro 80 -
738 (Signed)
by Nicolas Silberfaden
Euro 60 -
Flamboya (First edition)
by Viviane Sassen
sold
more books tagged »limited edition« | >> see all
-
Cell (signed)
by Daisuke Yokota
sold -
(Other) Adventures of Pinocchio
by Lorenzo Tricoli
Euro 27 -
The Critical conditions of my awareness will sometimes trigger...
by Han Lei
sold -
I wish to see where the winds meet (With a gravure print)
by Christian Bragg
Euro 150 -
American Cowboy (SIGNED)
by Karoliina Paatos
sold -
My Lagos (SPECIAL LTD EDITION WITH PRINT)
by Robin Hammond
sold
more books tagged »signed« | >> see all
-
Ka-boom : The Explosion of Landscape (WITH A SIGNED PRINT)
by Andrea Botto
sold -
A Road divided (SIGNED)
by Todd Hido
sold -
The Afronauts (With Signed Print)
by Cristina de Middel
sold -
Fragment II (Signed) (Only 30 copies)
by Tokio Ito
sold -
Osaka Station City (Signed and Numbered on 85 copies)
by Antony Cairns
Euro 250 -
A readiness to find strange and singular (SIGNED)
by Michael Abrams
sold
more books tagged »design« | >> see all
-
THE WORLD'S FIRST PHOTOBOOK WAS BLUE
by Albarran Cabrera
sold -
The Quickening (Edt ltd signed and numbered)
by Ying Ang
sold -
ERNA HELENA ANIA
by Tomasz Laczny
sold -
The Epilogue (Signed)
by Laia Abril
Euro 500 -
All I Ever Wanted (Signed and numbered edt of 500)
by Hester Scheurwater
sold -
Los Ninos de Aquí
by Thea Segall
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com