Thomas Sauvin
Thomas Sauvin is a French photography collector and publisher based in Beijing. Since 2006 he has worked exclusively as a consultant for the independent Archive of Modern Conflict based in Great Britain , for which he collects photos on contemporary history in China. The photo book Happy Tonite (2010) provides a glimpse into this collection .
In 2009 he founded the Silvermine project and collected more than half a million mostly anonymous color negatives that were destined for destruction at a Beijing recycling company. They cover a period of 20 years from 1985, from the time when classic film material was predominantly used in China and cameras were widely used in China, to around 2005 when digital photography took over everything.
Sauvin exhibited at the Dali Photo Festival (China), at the Open City Museum in Brixen (Austria) and at the Singapore International Photo Festival.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Happy Tonite . Editors Ed Jones, James Welch.
- ↑ Tania Branigan: Negative views: collection of camera film captures changing face of China . In: The Guardian , January 4, 2013.
- ↑ Rescued Chinese negatives - in pictures . The Guardian. January 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ^ Dali International Photography Festival
- ^ The artists Giovanni Melillo Kostner, Thomas Sauvin and Lei Lei at “Open City Museum”
- ↑ Silvermine ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Sauvin, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French photo collector and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |