Thomas Sauvin

Thomas Sauvin

Thomas Sauvin is a French collector and artist. Since 2009 he has salvaged discarded negatives from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, building the Beijing Silvermine archive of more than 850,000 anonymous photographs made between 1985 and 2005. He has published 15 photobooks with publishers including Archive of Modern Conflict, Jiazazhi, Skinnerboox, The M Editions and VOID, and has collaborated with artists such as Lei Lei and Kensuke Koike.

Films on Vurchel

2016
Hand Colored no.2
Directed by
2013
Recycled
Directed by
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