Perfect Pearl - Tara Fallaux - De Best Verzorgde Boeken

This intimate photo book in a signed, numbered edition of 250 copies, features truly fantastic spreads. Thanks to a folding technique that is as simple as it is effective, this becomes an interplay between different layers of experience: online and offline, inner and outer world, dream and reality. Perfect Pearl has a sewn binding in a cover with grooves, which is then quarter-folded to give a format of 170×280 mm. Intimate details remain hidden behind the fold, and can be seen only once the pages have been completely unfolded. This fold results in beautiful combinations of images – each page is as surprising as the last and we feel that we just have to keep on unfolding. An intimate, physical experience which one jury member remarked could be a nod to erotic magazines, which would be carried rolled up or folded to hide their content. A few jury members were less charmed by the typographic, card jacket. This could be a reference to Chinese printed matter, and if so appropriate to the subject. However, a number of jury members argued that for those unfamiliar with this project this doesn’t communicate a great deal, meaning that this choice fails to do complete justice to the richness of the book itself.