Matter by Aleix Plademunt

Matter by Aleix Plademunt*Awarded the Silver Medal for Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2022 (awarded 2023)* A photographic examination of matter as the basis of life across 640 pages, comprising 603 photographs in an exquisitely designed thread sewn softcover book. This book chronicles the most extensive photographic project to date from Spanish photographer Aleix Plademunt. The project began in 2013, setting out to address the age old question of our existence by delving into the

which he then tried to interpret

who owns the Raven Book and Zine store in Kansas

but the book is mostly

and redrawn plans

Darricau talks about how each has contributed to the development of the other in a relationship of interdependence that is now under threat

and on and on

It shows his sensitivity to light and nature

“The loudest noise in the world is silence

If the universe is so ancient and vast

was re-released for the first time in a new large format in 2018 but is already out of print

and more than 25 years since its last reissuing

Yet the miniscule is also ever present: the sound of wind