Letter Home
<p>Hello, my name is Raphaël Gianelli-Meriano, I’m a French director and photographer.</p>
<p>You might have come across some of my photography work, About Estonia, at La Cité de la Mode, in Paris, last year.</p>
<p>Today I’d love to tell you about my new project for a photography book, entitled “Letters Home”.</p>
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<p><strong>Why Letters Home? </strong></p>
<p><strong>“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 <em>Home.”</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. </p>
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<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. </p>
<p>At that time, I was using a 24X36 camera which I charged with cinema film, I also used a medium format camera. </p>
<p>I believe it’s important to keep track of those moments, people and who we were at a certain time of our lives. </p>
<p>That is what I’d like to share with you through my book and those images. It’s not only about me and them it’s also about you, us.</p>
<p><strong>1991Books</strong>, a young Paris based publishing house, helped me in putting together the layout and the book. </p>
<p><strong>All the 44 images of the book are analog. </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. </p>
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<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. </strong></p>
<p>Money will also help finance<strong> the printing of the book,</strong> which will be done in Estonia. </p>
<p>The size of the book will be of<strong> 24X28 cm.</strong></p>
<p><strong>There are 44 photographs for 84 pages.</strong></p>
<p><strong>There will be 500 copies of the book.</strong></p>
<p>If, thanks to your wonderful contribution, I could collect 2000€ more, I'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. </p>
<p>This would be amazing! </p>
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