Sainte Anne
Kopkina, Natalia
I am not Publishing, Helsinki, June 2019
32 pages
148 x 210 mm
Inkjet on Japanese paper, hand bound, softcover
Edition of 25
Language: French
ISBN 978-952-69089-1-5

Sainte Anne (Recueil artistique) consists of photographs taken in Normandy during an artist residency at the Le Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie in 2016. The book is printed on Japanese paper and is hand bound in a Japanese binding style by Juha Markula. The book received Beautiful Book Prize of the year 2019 awarded by the Finnish Book Art Committee.

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Sainte Marie
Kopkina, Natalia
I am not Publishing, Helsinki, 2020
34 pages
148 x 210 mm
Inkjet on Japanese paper, hand bound, softcover
Edition of 25
Language: French
ISBN 978-952-69089-2-2

Sainte Marie (Recueil artistique) consists of photographs taken in France during an artist residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2019. The book is printed on Japanese paper and is hand bound in a Japanese binding style by Juha Markula.

Order via email: nkopkina@gmail.com
Price 40€ + shipping

Mame
Kopkina, Natalia
I am not Publishing, Helsinki, December 2018
88 pages
171 x 277 mm
Offset, hand bound, softcover with flaps
Edition of 250 copies
Language: Russian + English
ISBN 978-952-69089-0-8

Poems by Boris Fileikin
Graphic design by Nicolai Angelov
Hand bound by Juha Markula
English translation by Jane Bugaeva

When finishing her series of photographs about Russia in 2015, Russian born Kopkina discovered in her grandfather's storage a carefully handwritten booklet with over a hundred poems by unknown poet Boris Fileikin. Kopkina’s grandfather and Fileikin had become friends during their encampment in a Siberian coal mine during the war in the 1940s. Kopkina was impressed by Fileikin’s melancholic poems that spread over 5 decades, from the 1940s to 1980s. They seemed to reflect the same Russian soul that she also dealt with in her photographs taken in 2006-2015 of her childhood home in Russia. This led to the idea of combining photographs and Fileikin's poems, which he was not able to publish during his lifetime.

The hand bound book Mame (To Mother) is in Russian and contains an English translation as a separate appendix. The book is published with support from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Frame Contemporary Art Finland. The book received Beautiful Book Prize of the year 2018 awarded by the Finnish Book Art Committee and was chosen as a finalist for the Finnish Photobook Award 2019.

Buy at:
Khaos Publishing
Photographic Gallery Hippolyte
The Finnish Museum of Photography
Nide Bookstore

Or via email: nkopkina@gmail.com
Price 48€ + shipping

10/10
Kopkina, Natalia
10 inkjet prints
hand bound portfolio box
400 x 260 mm
Edition of 10 numbered copies
Self-published by the artist, Helsinki, 2013