‘This intimate photo book in a signed, numbered edition of 250 copies, features truly fantastic spreads. Thanks to a folding technique that is as simple as it is effective, this becomes an interplay between different layers of experience: online and offline, inner and outer world, dream and reality. Perfect Pearl has a sewn binding in a cover with grooves, which is then quarter-folded to give a format of 170×280 mm. Intimate details remain hidden behind the fold, and can be seen only once the pages have been completely unfolded. This fold results in beautiful combinations of images – each page is as surprising as the last and we feel that we just have to keep on unfolding.’ Best Dutch Book Design
The foreword was written by the Chinese curator Yining He. The photos in the book are accompanied by personal intimate WeChat moments that have been made anonymously. In the middle you find the metaphorical love story ‘I Have a Dragon’ written by Lova Yu.
Book PERFECT PEARL
Edition of 250 signed and numbered
Publishing date: April 2022
Selection of 80 photo’s, 60 pages
18,5 cm x 28 cm, Special folding design
Edited by Tara Fallaux, Hedy van Erp, Eva van der Schans
Design by Eva van der Schans/ In Edition
Printed by Die Keure, Brugge
Self published
Reviews of PERFECT PEARL
Cphmag by Jörg Colberg: https://cphmag.com/perfect-pearl/
Alex Prior: https://www.instagram.com/
Volkskrant Magazine: Dutch only
You can buy the book at the following places:
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Last copies
Galerie Caroline O’Breen Hazenstraat 54, Amsterdam
Atheneum Bookstore, Spui 14, Amsterdam SOLD OUT
Huis Marseille, Keizersgracht 401, Amsterdam SOLD OUT
NDSM Fuse, NDSM Plein 29, Amsterdam. SOLD OUT
Galerie Echo 119, 119 rue Vieille du Temple, Paris. SOLD OUT
Shortlist Prix Du Livre Rencontres d’Arles
Shortlist Encontros de Imagem
On view at Benaki Museum, Athens Photo festival
Alec Soth: “Dear Tara, Thank you so much for sending Perfect Pearl. You've done such a great job, not just with the photography, but also the text and book design. What a wonderful object it is to hold! It's quite impressive and I'm happy to have it in my library. With gratitude”