Tessie - Giola Cassar & Glen Calleja

Product information "Tessie - Giola Cassar & Glen Calleja"
'Tessie’ is a photo-book inspired by the personal stories of a woman who was 102 years old. Page by page, portrait by portrait, one is drawn into a biographical collage that spans more than a century. It is a photographic narrative accompanied by textual fragments. Tessie is here both the storyteller and the embodiment of all the places, objects and people she tells about. The book is 165 pages of carefully constructed sequences of original and found imagery; delicate portraits dialogue with composites from old family albums. It all unfolds from close ups of jewellery that have been passed down within the family. Throughout the book a bilingual text runs parallel to the visuals. 
 https://www.giolacassar.com/tessie-scerri-1
 
The binding and front cover are done by hand. Each book also contains a set of prints attached at the end. 
This project is supported by Arts Council Malta – Malta Arts Fund, and in collaboration with Glen Calleja and Adrian Gauci.
Size: 27,1 x 21,7 cm
Designer: Adrian Gauci
Edition: 150
Editor: Clare Azzopardi
Binding: Stitched
Printing: Offset printing
Other Details: Each book also contains a set of prints attached at the end, Hand-made
Pages: 176
Place: Malta
Year: 2019
Publisher: Self-Published
Printer: Gutenberg