Thomas Sauvin

Thomas Sauvin is a French photography collector and editor who lives in Beijing.

Since 2006 he exclusively works as a consultant for the UK-based Archive of Modern Conflict,[1][2] an independent archive and publisher, for whom he collects Chinese works, from contemporary photography to period publications to anonymous photography.

Sauvin has had exhibitions of his work, and published through Archive of Modern Conflict.

Sauvin started the Beijing Silvermine project, accumulating more than 850,000 anonymous color negatives (as of December 2019) destined for destruction in a Beijing recycling zone.

[3][4] It covers a period of 20 years, from 1985, namely when photographic film (which contains microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals) started being used massively in China, to 2005, when digital photography started taking over.