She Looks into Me

Limited Edition of 200 copies
Format: 220 x 280 mm
Binding: Open spine paperback with flaps
Pages: 84 pages (42 black & white photographs)
Text by Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (Portuguese / English)
Foreword by M.F. Sullivan, Afterword by Jesse Freeman

Shortlisted for the “Best Book Design From All Over the World” competition of Stiftung Buchkunst, in Leipezig.

Shortlisted on the 2018 list of “Interesting Artist and Photographic Books from 2018”, according with The Photobook Journal. 

“She looks into me” tells a story of innocence and perversion. It's a series of intimate images that hold a deep reverence for a time when the mystery of life and death were closely related. Conceived in a manner close to theater, the book is divided into three chapters (Being, Becoming, Unbecoming) that explore the idea of human representation and how looking at an image actively (and preferably slowly) can evoke more than what is actually depicted in front of one's eye. To look at something is undeniably very different from looking into something and this marks the genesis for this work that borrows the title from a poem by Surrealist poet Paul Éluard.