Zenit
2026. Softcover with flaps, leporello insert, b/w and color ill., spine binding, English, 189 pages, 18,5 x 25 cm 

Zenit brings together photographs, films, and light-responsive installations by Berlin-based artist Shirin Sabahi. Shown in non-chronological order, and some for the first time, the photographs ground her artistic roots in photography—at times as a study, and at others as the work itself. The book includes an essay by writer and critic Kirsty Bell, a conversation between Sabahi and artist and longtime friend Vijai Maia Patchineelam, and a response to Sabahi’s unfinished and ongoing works by writer and translator Bela Shayevich. The book returns, too, to Sabahi’s very first camera, passed down through her family: a Soviet Zenit EM SLR, an origin frame for her way of looking and a device that, along with its world, has since disappeared.

Contributors

Kirsty Bell

Vijai Maia Patchineelam

Shirin Sabahi

Bela Shayevich

Editor

Elena Malzew

Design

Studio Manuel Raeder with Shirin Sabahi

Publisher

Bom Dia Books (Berlin)