The book Boundaries of Love is a photographic-literary work by the internationally acclaimed Czech photographer Dity Pepe, who in thirteen chapters examines the boundaries of love, trauma as a motivation to create and photography as a therapy. Dita combines an artistic approach and scientific research in a forthcoming publication, which is also a creative part of her doctorate at Tomas Bata University in Zlín.
She collaborated on the publication with a number of interesting scientific and artistic personalities, as well as people who analyzed the topic from a purely personal perspective and experience.
The book is published in a small limited edition, only 500 pieces of the book go on sale - each is numbered and signed, no one knows in advance what number they will receive. In addition, the original photograph of Dity Pepe is hidden in three books. The book is bilingual - the main publication is in Czech, the second book contains an English translation.
In addition to photographs, the book contains dozens of texts in a number of forms - interviews, reports, personal diaries, letters, short stories, essays, lecture passages and professional texts by which Dita, in cooperation with invited personalities, views various forms of love. He interweaves them with his photographic work - self-portraits, archival family photographs, stylized portraits, photo collages, documentary photography, still lifes ... the author wanted to have in her life.
The Boundaries of Love contain thirteen chapters:
1. About maternal love
2. About love and dolls
3. About love and death
4. About love for yourself
5. About animal love
6. About pure love
7. About polyamoric love
8. About friendship and also love for work
9. About love and its influence on creation
10. About paternal love
11. About pedophile love
12. About love from the point of view of science
13. Still falling in love
Through the Boundaries of Love, Dita tries to introduce various forms of love. The aim of the book is to stimulate a different thinking, perception and experience of love, to suggest how to cope with various traumas - not just with love. Photography has become a way to treat Dity's trauma. The publication is very personal and open - on the level of photographs and text. The book is Dita's voice all the time, which is a guide to the individual chapters.
The publication is published in a small edition in the Czech-English version, in cooperation with the wom-men publishing house and Tomas Bata University in Zlín.
Who will like the book?
Those who are interested in the process of creation as a form of (auto) therapy. To those who want to look for different forms of love. Those who are interested in often neglected topics. For those who have been interested in previous wo-men publications such as Intimacy, Love Yourself and Self-portraits. For those who like photo books. For those who create a sustainable and artistically valuable library at home. For those who like well-crafted books in a nice graphic form.
The following people collaborate on the book:
Photographer Dita Pepe collaborated on the book with a leading figure in Polish and European photography, Rafał Milach, and literary documentary filmmaker and publisher Barbora Baronová. The graphic design of the book was given by Štěpán Malovec.
Texts, interviews, and ideas from the book also contributed, among others: sociologist Lucie Jarkovská from Duo docentek, writer Jana Poncarová and writer Aleš Palán, director of perinatal hospice Alena Peremská, sociologist Martin Fafejta, professor of biology and ethologist Daniel Frynta, sociologist Zuzana Kolarzová, doctor Petr Helbich, poet and theologian Magdalena Šipka, music theorist Jiří Zahrádka, neurologist Ivan Rektor, psychologist Alice Prokopová, photographer Nina Mann and many / many others.