Dimensions: 18.5 x 13.5 cm
Pages: 80
Paris Photo 2026 · Edition of 333
A small book that got wonderfully out of hand.
While working on a substantial new photobook with Teun van der Heijden, Paul Cupido wanted to create something small for Paris Photo.
A gathering of images from different years and places, including recent work from Favignana. Van der Heijden recognised the sea, the tides and the rhythm of ebb and flow as recurring elements in Cupido’s work. Together, they imagined a book whose pages could dance to that same rhythm.
Their edges rise and fall like waves, revealing glimpses of images yet to come. The unusual construction shaped the sequence, allowing an unexpected narrative to emerge.
The consequence? All 333 copies had to be gathered by hand, sheet by sheet. A rather monastic exercise in patience.
Printed by robstolk®, with risographs by De Kijm and binding by J. Voetelink & Zoon, éphémère is a little celebration of paper, intuition and the beautiful inefficiency of the human hand.
Text by Nora Rosenthal
©Photography by Paul Cupido
