Thomas Sauvin, Until Death Do Us Part, 2020

“Until Death Do Us Part” collects a series of photographs found in a Beijing garbage dump, exploring the role played by cigarettes in Chinese wedding ceremonies; indeed, it is a tradition for the bride, as a sign of gratitude, to light a cigarette for each of her guests, and for the bride and groom to play a series of games with cigarettes as the protagonists.

Love and death go hand in hand in the images contained in the ingenious wrapper of this publication, now in its fifth edition and recognised as one of the best photo books of the year at the Fotobookfestival in Kassel in 2016.