Until Death Do Us Part by Thomas Sauvin focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of an unprecedented ingenuousness.
This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death walk hand in hand. These photos come from the Beijing Silvermine project, an archive of half a million negatives salvaged over the years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing.
BOOK
Until Death Do Us Part
Thomas Sauvin
Published by Jiazazhi Press
in a first edition of 1000
Size／53 x 83 x 21mm
108 pages, paperback, Hardcover, with a cigarette box
China, May 2015
ISBN 978-988-12631-9-3
http://www.jiazazhi.com
