Eyeshot Books
What Was Seen
Photographer
Sergey Maximishin
Edited by
Marco Savarese, Editor-in-Chief
Published
Eyeshot, 2026
Format
Hardcover, 22 × 24 cm
Pages
128
Price
Sold out
This limited edition book brings together a carefully edited selection from the extensive archive of Sergey Maximishin, a documentary photographer and World Press Photo Award winner, spanning different countries, cultures, and political contexts. The work is grounded in photography as an act of presence: being there, observing, and recording reality as it unfolds, without imposing a narrative or explanatory framework. Maximishin’s images are rooted in what was seen and encountered, moments registered with precision, restraint, and attention to human presence. The photographs resist dramatization and avoid spectacle, allowing complexity to emerge through accumulation rather than interpretation. What connects these images is not a theme or storyline, but a consistent way of looking: attentive, patient, and deeply grounded in lived experience.
Who made it
The peoplePhotographer
Sergey Maximishin
Sergey Maximishin is a Russian photojournalist known for his sharp, human-centered approach to documentary photography. A World Press Photo winner and multiple award recipient, his work combines irony, empathy, and social insight.
The book
Edition detailsEdition
FormatHardcover, 22 × 24 cm
Pages128
EditionLimited edition
SignedDigitally
Publishing
Edited byMarco Savarese
IntroductionLucrezia Bonarota
PublishedEyeshot, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Printed inItaly
ISBN979-12-80238-81-8
Made to last
MaterialsWe choose every material for what it gives the photographs, and for what it leaves behind. Every page, cover, and endpaper is paper made in Italy by Fedrigoni, founded in Verona in 1888: it gives us the print quality we want and the environmental guarantees we will not do without, and we pay more for both.
Papers
Interior and coverSymbol Tatami, matt coated. 30% more body than ordinary coated stock and 97% opacity: the blacks stay deep, and no image shows through from the page behind.
EndpapersSirio Color Black, 140 g/m². Dyed through the pulp with lightfast pigments, so it stays black for decades.
Standards
FSC® MixBoth papers: fibre from responsibly managed forests and controlled sources.
No elemental chlorineBoth papers: pulp bleached without elemental chlorine (ECF).
Acid freeBoth papers, Long Life certified: the pages will not yellow or turn brittle.
RecyclableBoth papers: every paper in the book can be recycled at the end of its life.
PapermakerFedrigoni, rated Platinum by EcoVadis (top 1% of its industry) and on the CDP A List for climate, 2025.
How we make it
DesignEdited, sequenced, and designed in our studio, page by page, together with the photographer.
PrintPaper, print, and binding in Italy, a short distance apart, with people we have worked with for years.
EditionWe print what is ordered, in a limited edition: no warehouse of unsold copies.
ShippingFrom Italy, one parcel per order, straight to its reader. An order never ships in pieces.
PackagingA recyclable mono-material envelope (Made for Recycling, Interzero), resealable to be used again, closed with acid-free paper stickers.
