The series ‘17 18 19’ is drawn from a bag of negative film salvaged from a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing in 2010. The bag contained an archive of over 15,000 scratched black and white negatives, shot at one of the city's detention centres between 1991 and 1993.
Thomas Sauvin kept the negatives presented in this series un-scanned for almost a decade. Even though the artist was intrigued by the content, the risk of scanning official Chinese disposed material could put in jeopardy the (by then) starting Silvermine Project. For this reason, this material was always edited by the artist in its raw negative form. Kept in such a way in the presented book.
 
Publication date - 2019 (First Edition of 750)
Publisher - Void
Format - Hardcover
Dimensions - 15cm x 20.5cm
Pages - 224
Condition - Excellent. Some minor to the bottom of the back cover.