Shirin Sabahi, Zenit

Zenit brings together photographs, films, and light-responsive installations by Berlin-based artist Shirin Sabahi. Shown in non-chronological order, and some for the first time, the photographs ground her artistic roots in photography—at times as a study, and at others as the work itself. The book includes an essay by writer and critic Kirsty Bell, a conversation between Sabahi and artist and longtime friend Vijai Maia Patchineelam, and a response to Sabahi’s unfinished and ongoing works by writer and translator Bela Shayevich. The book returns, too, to Sabahi’s very first camera, passed down through her family: a Soviet Zenit EM SLR, an origin frame for her way of looking and a device that, along with its world, has since disappeared.

Edited by Elena Malzew, texts by Kirsty Bell, Vijai Maia Patchineelam, Shirin Sabahi, Bela Shayevich
Designed by Studio Manuel Raeder with Shirin Sabahi

English, 185 × 250 mm, 189 pages, softcover with flaps, including a leporello insert, ISBN: 978-3-96436-097-7
Published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE