SUMER
Óscar Monzón & Arthur Larrue
published by RVB Books
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Short story: Arthur Larrue #arthurlarrue
Photographs and layout: Óscar Monzón
Cover design: Antonio Xoubanova
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Text layout: Alice Monguzzi
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Translation: Emmelene Landon
Proofreading: David Guérin, Joshua L. Sigal
Light Assistant: Santiago Saizu
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Photographic archive assistant: Diego García
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Color separation: La Troupe
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Editorial coordination: Miléna Chevillard
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Publisher: RVB Books, Matthieu Charon, Rémi Faucheux
Thanks to Magali Genuite & Fabrice Paineau
@fabricepaineau for bringing us together with such great intuition to Rémi, Matthieu and Miléna for the great support and for believing in the project and to our family and friends!!!
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SUMER is a striking collaboration between photographer Óscar Monzón and writer Arthur Larrue. Bringing image and text together, the book blends a powerful photographic series with a dystopian narrative set in a hyper-connected world-city shaped by highways, flows, and consumer culture. Through the marginal figures of Óscar and Gabrielle, the project explores themes of exclusion, control, and desire. Combining strong visual storytelling with a compelling literary voice, SUMER offers a distinctive and immersive reading experience at the crossroads of photography, fiction, and contemporary social critique.
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“He would stand at the side of motorways, leaning against a bollard or a metal railing, watching the vehicles follow one another as if they had traced the letters of the same infinite sentence, as if the city of Sumer were a being, as if this being wrote with the incessant flow of car headlights. The lights were his ink. The dark night was his blank page.”
Arthur Larrue - Sumer