NO MORE NO LESS portraits and everyday happenings

portraits and everyday happenings

and gardens

commissioned by The New York Times Magazine

‘17 18 19’ was created in a collaboration between Thomas Sauvin and Void

Woong Soak Teng

NO MORE NO LESS portraits and everyday happeningsIn 2015, French artist Thomas Sauvin acquired an album produced in the early 1980s by an unknown Shanghai University photography student. The album comprises original negatives, silver prints, manuscript comments from an anonymous professor, and shows the students diligence in mastering the rules applying to the conventional portrait. This volume was given a second life through the expert hands of Kensuke Koike, a Japanese artist based in Venice whose