Alice Mann’s THE NIGHT IS YOUNG . This is a book of South African school- leavers at their Matric Balls. Photographed between 2018 and 2023, and at thirteen different high schools, the book presents a comprehensive study of South African youth at a momentous point in their lives.
The book is designed by Stuart Smith and clothbound in a vibrant blue with a gilded title, fittingly regal for the nights within. Each of these events have been long prepared for, long-longed for — an ultimate crescendo of the creation of self. This is a prepared portrait of who they are. The school corridors are their Met Steps, the dining hall their Oscars stage: it is their big day, and they go big...
THE NIGHT IS YOUNG
Alice Mann
Poem by Maureen Onwunali
Essay by Catherine E. McKinley
Designed by SMITH
Clothbound hardcover with tip-on image and gold foiling on spine and back
28 x 23cm 112 pages
First edition of 500 copies.
