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This is not a photography book, it is a book about exercising photography to see the world. A book about compulsion, obsession, accumulation and a consistent unquenchable thirst.

This book is not an artist monograph on Giovanna Silva, it is a book about Giovanna Silva. A book which meets the artist in its compulsive actions – an equivalent resonant expression of Giovanna’s voracious and abounding nature. Providing clarity through abundance, the book encourages slow focus in a world that increasingly demands instant gratification, presenting hundreds of photographs of market stall collections, taken by Giovanna over five years and across ten cities.

During a three-day workshop, one thousand four hundred and twenty-two photographic prints are edited by Giovanna Silva and OK-RM (Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath). They are laid out across the studio, distilled into collections according to pictorial correlations and associations, compulsively arranged and re-arranged, setting the stage for these newly formed relationships to develop into new compositions. This compulsive act of editing is documented by photographer Thomas Adank as an active and live component of the work.

284 pages, 11 x 16 cm
Published by InOtherWords
ISBN: 9781919211824