Until Death Do Us Part focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of unprecedented ingenuousness. This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death walk hand in hand. These photos come from the Beijing Silvermine project, an archive of half a million negatives salvaged over the years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing.

This book is nominated as one of the best photobooks in Fotobookfestival Kassel 2016

This book is selected as one of the best photobooks by photo-eye and New York Times in 2015.

About the artist: Thomas Sauvin

Thomas Sauvin is a French collector and artist. He won the prize for the Exhibition of the Year at Lianzhou Photo Festival in 2013. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Chicago, the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Art, and the Guangdong Museum of Art.

Over the last seven years, Thomas has published 10 photo books with the Archive of Modern Conflict (UK), Jiazazhi (CH), Skinnerboox (IT), The M Editions (FR), VOID (GREECE) as well as self-published artist books. His publications have entered the collections of TATE, the V&A, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the Pompidou Museum.

《雙喜》聚焦於香煙在中國婚禮中所扮演的意想不到的角色。在中國婚宴中，通常新娘要為每一位男士來賓點燃一支煙以表感謝。新娘和新郎會被邀請玩一些粗糙質樸的抽煙遊戲，這本書正是向這個愛與死亡並肩的傳統致敬。裡面照片來自 “北京銀礦”, 一個由50多萬張從北京郊區回收站逐年搶救回來的廢舊底片組成的檔案庫。

關於藝術家：Thomas Sauvin (蘇文)

蘇文，法國收藏家、藝術家。他於2013年獲得連州攝影節年度展覽獎。作品曾在芝加哥當代攝影博物館、北京中央美術學院、廣東美術館展出。

在過去的七年裡，蘇文與現代衝突檔案館（英國）、假雜誌（中國）、Skinnerboox(意大利)、The M Editions(法國)、VOID（希臘）等出版社合作及自出版了10本藝術書。他的作品已被泰特美術館、V&A博物館、法國國家圖書館和蓬皮杜博物館收藏。