MY BOOK, Sofiya Loriashvili

About After intense years full of experiences, parties, travels, rehabs, and encounters, it's time to close this chapter with a beautiful object that encapsulates life. In a small A6 book with a sturdy, copper-colored cover, inspired by pocket bibles, I’ve gathered seven years of photography, from 2017 to 2024. It’s a raw and unfiltered testimony of youth, but not only that—it reflects carefreeness and profound moments of depression lived between France and Ukraine, between the streets, apartments, and medical institutions, between chaos and ecstasy. This work brings together fragments of lives from people I met along the way, spanning the periods of pre-war, war, COVID, and emptiness. Mixing documentary, street photography, and staged shots, this book is both a personal diary and a thread that weaves together all these intersecting stories into one work. A huge thank you to everyone who allowed me into their lives and shared a part of themselves with me. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 200 copies 152 pages 10.5x15 cm format Sturdy hardcover binding, raw edges, flat spine, sewn signatures art direction : Stéphane Coutelle printer : Escourbiac REWARDS My Book in 1 or 2 copies, signed and numbered 35 euros instead of 40 The book accompanied by a print. Image taken from the book, 20x30 cm print. Each print is available in 10 copies, each signed and numbered. Option to have the pack in x2. MYSTERY EROT*C POSTCARD. 7 unpublished erot*c images have been selected to be printed on dibond and ready to hang. Each image is available in 10 copies. SUGAR. It’s the Jackpot—you have the chance to win the big prize. In addition to receiving 2 copies accompanied by 2 prints and an eroti*c postcard on dibond, you are invited to the launch party where you will spend a memorable time in the VIP area with the artist herself. What a joy!

Sofiya Loriashvili Born in Ukraine and expatriated to France from a young age, Sofiya Loriashvili uses her birthplace as the anchor point for her documentation. Returning each year to see her family and loved ones, she documents her country through her own evolution. Carrying her camera wherever she goes, including to psychiatric hospitals and rehab centers where she is interned, it becomes both a weapon and a reason for being. She documents the communities in which she lives in a raw and unfiltered manner. By creating intimate connections with her subjects, she is now compelled to become part of them in order to photograph them. Blending writing with photography, she publishes her reports in Vice, revealing the inner workings of a Ukrainian rehab center and a place for young refugees called "Rezavod." This report will make its way to the Arles festival and will be projected at the Warsaw Museum. Stéphane Coutelle is a renowned art and beauty photographer. Born in Paris in 1962, he has had a rich and diverse career: fashion and celebrity portraits in the 1980s, then as a painter of large hypnotic portraits in the 1990s, before returning to photography and becoming a global reference in advertising photography and beauty film direction. Stéphane Coutelle has published five books: Me Myself and I in 1995, Shoebox Studio in 2012, Insomnies in 2014, CARBONE in 2019, and 2020 in 2021. Always interested in publishing and art direction, he collaborated for a long time with Bettina Rheims, and created More Trouble for her. He then produced several books through his publishing house, La Belle Étoile, including Photography by Riego van Wersch and Tezz by Stefan Rappo. Since 2019, he has been teaching portrait photography at the Gobelins School in Paris. In 2022, he began the series Gen Z, which consists of 200 portraits of adolescents from Generation Z.