Letter Home

I've had this book project in my heart for quite some time, now it is time to publish it with your support!

Project visual Letter Home
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06/16/2019
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Letter Home

<p>Hello, my name is Rapha&euml;l Gianelli-Meriano, I&rsquo;m a French director and photographer.</p> <p>You might have come across some of my photography work, About Estonia, at La Cit&eacute; de la Mode, in Paris, last year.</p> <p>Today I&rsquo;d love to tell you about my new project for a photography book, entitled &ldquo;Letters Home&rdquo;.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/594401/540px_Letters-Home_nyc_dec_2007-V4_R-RGB-1557843284.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><strong>Why Letters Home?&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>&ldquo;This book records a period of my life when I was mostly traveling and living abroad. Intimate photographs of my friends and our daily lives kept track of what one might call&nbsp;<em>Home.&rdquo;</em></strong></p> <p>Most of the images of the book were taken between 2003 and 2010. In Berlin, Great Britain, USA, Estonia, Russia or Iceland, France of course. I took pictures of my friends to document the fact that I was next to them in some important moments of their lives.&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/594404/540px_Letters-Home_Islande_2006-01-V2-R-RGB-1557843346.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>There are also some landscapes, interiors or objects that I came across traveling. Those poetic moments in between actions, which I love to photograph.&nbsp;</p> <p>At that time, I was using a 24X36 camera which I charged with cinema film, I also used a medium format camera.&nbsp;</p> <p>I believe it&rsquo;s important to keep track of those moments, people and who we were at a certain time of our lives.&nbsp;</p> <p>That is what I&rsquo;d like to share with you through my book and those images. It&rsquo;s not only about me and them it&rsquo;s also about you, us.</p> <p><strong>1991Books</strong>,&nbsp;a young Paris based publishing house, helped me in putting together the layout and the book.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>All the 44 images of the book are analog.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Coming along with them, is <strong>a poem by Estonian author Jaan Kaplinski, </strong>whom writings inspired me for some years already. I even shot a documentary film on our encounter.&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/594406/540px_Letters_Home_Cover_DEF-1557843530.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/594408/540px_Letters-Home_soyons_darcy_2008-V3R-RGB_B-1557843708.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/594409/540px_Letters-Home_10_001-V4_R2-RGB_2c-1557843781.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/594411/540px_RGM_Letters-Home_estonie_2004_1-V2-RGB_B-1557843936.jpg" width="100%" /></p>

Allocation of funds

<p><strong>The collected money will help finance part of the production and the printing of the book.</strong></p> <p>The production is<strong> the scan of the negatives</strong>, part of retouching of the images.</p> <p>A Paris retouching studio already helped me for the <strong>color-grading of the photographs.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Money will also help finance<strong> the printing of the book,</strong> which will be done in Estonia.&nbsp;</p> <p>The size of the book will be of<strong>&nbsp;24X28 cm.</strong></p> <p><strong>There are 44 photographs&nbsp;for 84 pages.</strong></p> <p><strong>There will be 500 copies of the book.</strong></p> <p>If,&nbsp;thanks to your wonderful contribution, I could collect 2000&euro; more, I&#39;d be able to first pay a little money to the people who helped working on the book and also produce the prints for an exhibition of the photographs.&nbsp;</p> <p>This&nbsp;would be amazing!&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/594857/540_Letters-Home_RGM_KQ_13_3291_3583-V3-RGB-1557931423.jpg" width="100%" /></p>

Rewards

Featured reward

A copy of the book

€30

  • 33 contributions
Thank you very much for your kind help! You will receive a copy of the book + an invitation by email for the launch of the book this Fall in Paris.

Estimated delivery: October 2019

THANK YOU!!!

€10

  • 2 contributions
Thank you very much for your help! You'll receive an invitation by email for the launch of the book this Fall in Paris.

Estimated delivery: October 2019

The book + a postcard of "Letters Home" cover

€50

  • 11 contributions
Thank you very much for your help! You will receive a copy of the book + a 5 postcards set of the cover of the book (to keep on your desk or send to your beloved ones) + an invitation by email for the launch of the book this Fall in Paris.

Estimated delivery: October 2019

The book + a 13X18cm print

€90

  • 6 contributions
Thank you very much for your help! You will receive a copy of the book + a limited edition postcard of the cover of the book (to keep on your desk or send to your beloved ones) + a 13X18 Lambda print of a photograph of your choice from the book + an invitation by email for the launch of the book this Fall in Paris.

Estimated delivery: October 2019

The book + a 18X24cm fine art print of your choice

€200

  • 6 contributions
Thank you very much for your help! You really contribute to make this book possible! You will receive a copy of the book signed + a limited edition postcard of the cover of the book (to keep on your desk or send to your beloved ones) + a 18X24cm Fine Art print of a photograph of your choice from the book signed and numbered to 20 copies (Gallery price of 450€) + an invitation by email for the launch of the book this Fall in Paris.

Estimated delivery: October 2019

A diner with the author

€450

  • 1 contribution
Thank you very much for your help! You really contribute to make this book possible! We will soon meet around a diner to talk about "Letters Home". You will receive a copy of the book signed + a limited edition postcard of the cover of the book (to keep on your desk or send to your beloved ones) + a 18X24cm Fine Art print of a photograph of your choice from the book signed and number to 20 copies (Gallery price of 450€) + an invitation by email for the launch of the book this Fall in Paris + a diner with the author to talk about Letters Home and his work as a photographer.

Estimated delivery: October 2019

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