Marie Tomanova - It Was Once My Universe

Marie Tomanova

It Was Once My Universe

Published by SUPER LABO, 2022
Book size 23.4 x 27 cm
Pages 128 pages - 85 illustrations
Hardcover
First edition

Marie Tomanova is launching her new book, It Was Once My Universe, in Tokyo in September and in New York in October 2022. Intimate and vulnerable, it explores her return home as a different person after a long period of absence, and the documentation of this dizzying experience. The photographs in It Was Once My Universe were created between December 16, 2018, and January 5, 2019, during Tomanova's first return to her small family farm in Mikulov, Czech Republic, in over eight long years.

It Was Once My Universe is almost the opposite of Tomanova's critically acclaimed books Young American (2019) and New York New York (2021), which are about coming to the United States, discovering one's identity, and celebrating that of others. It Was Once My Universe is about coming home and feeling lost. It's about being in between.
- Editor's text