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Where the Light Lives

Where the Light Lives by Pierrot Men

Photographer

Pierrot Men

Edited by

Marco Savarese, Editor-in-Chief

Published

Eyeshot, 2025

Format

Hardcover, 22 × 24 cm

Pages

128

Price

Sold out

“Where The Light Lives” is Pierrot Men’s intimate and colorful love letter to Madagascar, the island he calls home, and the place where his heart has learned to see. Bathed in golden light and woven with the quiet poetry of everyday life, this collection captures the grace of fleeting moments: a hand shielding the sun, a child’s glance, the silence of open fields. The project was born to celebrate Men’s extraordinary ability to capture fragments of reality that often escape the common eye, transforming them into universal, deeply human images. This limited edition collection focuses on the dialogue between light, shadow, and spontaneity, central elements of Pierrot Men’s visual language, to build a narrative where the magic of the everyday takes shape through the most authentic gestures. From markets to villages, from streets to public spaces, each photograph tells of life as it unfolds naturally, where human presence merges effortlessly with the surrounding environment.

Who made it

The people

Photographer

Pierrot Men

Pierrot Men, born in 1954 in Midongy du Sud, Madagascar, is a renowned Malagasy photographer celebrated for his evocative imagery that captures the essence of his homeland. Initially pursuing a career in painting, Men transitioned to photography in the 1970s, establishing a photo studio in Fianarantsoa in 1974.

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Edition details

Edition

FormatHardcover, 22 × 24 cm
Pages128
EditionLimited edition
SignedDigitally

Publishing

Edited byMarco Savarese
IntroductionLucrezia Bonarota
PublishedEyeshot, 2025
LanguageEnglish & French
Printed inItaly
ISBN979-12-80238-72-6

Made to last

Materials

We 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.

Our sustainability practices

A girl in a white dress lies resting on a long bench against a weathered concrete wall, in a color photograph by Pierrot Men.

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