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Sophia is a Chinese photographer and visual artist based in Amsterdam, whose works often interweaves photography, printmaking, and bookmaking, oscillate between materiality and abstraction, revolves around the fluid transformation of images and the tactile interplay of materials.
SX001 → From the Edge
Photographs made whilst travelling in the Netherlands between 2022 and 2023. Alongside this Sophia was researching Wabi-sabi (a Japanese philosophy) and reflecting on what she was seeing, the impermanent nature of all things and the balance of perfect imperfections. With these observations, walks, and wandering around, the book From the Edge takes its form.
28 x 20cm
44 pages
Inkjet printed on circle offset 80gsm
ibo 60gsm & brown recycled paper 100gsm
Published 2023
Reprint Edition of 30
£28
SX002 → Variations
This publication centers around one photographic image. Every copy is unique in its composition; every page is different from the next.
Originating from the engraving imprint materials of the image, the scans capture remnants of the printing process.
These pieces of paper, utilized to ensure clean prints, are essentially leftovers from the engraving printing process. Through a myriad of processes and materials, the original photographic image undergoes transformation. The variations are the result of analog reproduction techniques, such as photo engraving and offset printing.
The imprints from the image and etching plate are transformed into six offset plates. Editing, designing, printing, reprinting, folding, and assembling the pages in shifting orders contributes to a multitude of variations, resulting in an edition of 285 individual publications.
31 x 23cm
52 pages
Offset printed on Holmen TRND 2.0 70gsm
Offet printed cover on Olin Origins Pebble 240gsm
Published 2024
Edition of 285
£25
SX003 → untitled, lines
29.7 x 10.5cm
22 pages
inkject printed on ReThinking paper 80gsm
Published 2025
Edition of 58
£10