Author: Pierre Bessard

Semper Augustus sits within a greater ongoing body of work entitled ‘Short Stories For My Adolescent Self’.
This work aims to question the nature of desire by exploring notions of attraction and repulsion, beauty and ugliness and the fragility of life through an investigation of the fluidity of our being and the material that we are made up of.
The pictures themselves attempt to investigate conventional ways of seeing and knowing. Through abstraction, these images strive to challenge understandings that have been taken for granted, or that seem to be common sense.
Such displacement in turn serves to communicate a tension that moves from the personal to the universal.
The body of work is comprised of thirteen images – one for each menstrual cycle in a calendar year. This number also references the superstition and stigmatisation that has been attached to women’s bodies throughout history.
On a personal level the work documents my own personal struggle to come to terms with my existence as both a women and a sexual being.

Hidden Track
Published by Editions Bessard Paris
Designed by Ramon‬ Pez
Limited edition of 500 copies
With a Signed C-Print inside the book.
Book size: 210 X 280mm
100 pages, Hardcover, Bare thread-bound.
Published in Feb.2016
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出版社：Editions Bessard（法国）
书籍设计：Ramon‬ Pez
尺寸：210 X 280mm
页数：100
限量发行500本
每本单独编号
内含C-print签名作品
出版日期：2016年2月
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Lin Zhipeng (林志鹏), aka 223

Lin Zhipeng is born in Guangdong province, China and graduated from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies with major of financial English. Lin is a photographer and freelance writer based in Beijing. He constructed a blog entitled North Latitude 23 with millions views and posted his personal photographs and words on it. He has contributed to numerous creative and fashion magazines as editor and writer and has produced photo shoots for magazines such as Vice, S magazine, VISION, iLOOK, City Pictorial, etc and brands such as United Nude, Converse, Nike, Glaceau Vitamin Water, Bacardi, etc. He also produced video works such as SANSAR, SCENE, Xanthium, etc. Since 2005 he began his self-publish project. So far he has included three volumes of photography entitled My Private Broadway, two volumes personal zines entitled VERSATILE, and independent creative magazine project TOO Magazine. In 2012 he published a photography works collection entitled NO.223 in Taiwan, and a personal travel book entitled SATELLITE OF LOVE in China. In 2016 he published a photography book HIDDEN TRACK in France. His photography works were included in 3030:NEW PHOTOGRAPHY IN CHINA, Elephant, Back to Black & White, Asian Creatives, etc.

FIRST PRIZE

Mathieu Asselin »Monsanto, a photographic investigation«

Chosen unanimously by the jury, Monsanto offers an amazing photographic inside into the past and present of the chemicals and plastic factory. The book combines archival materials from the company with a range of portraits and landscapes directly affected by the environmental consequences of industrial production. The relevance of the topic is brought in a perfect package of photography, design and text. A rational form of protest book, a true winner.

Ruben Lundgren / Jury report

SECOND PRIZE

Hiroshi Okamoto »Recruit«

In Recruit we follow the job hunting experience of Yo Toshoni, one of the 500.000 students graduation in Japan every year. The photographs are cleverly enriched with tipped in text messages, emails and advertisement materials. Thank you for your application, you got the offer!

Ruben Lundgren / Jury report

THIRD PRIZE

Zhang Lijie »Midnight Tweedle«

Zhang gives a portrait of Chinese contemporary society linked to her own past. She combines her documentary work with old images from her personal photo albums and images found on the web. The playful design makes the book a real page-turner.

Ruben Lundgren / Jury report