PERF Books No. 1, Au Naturel by Francesc Planas, brings together a series of images taken at the Cannes Film Festival, the Met Gala, and various Fashion Weeks. With an ironic eye, the photographer observes the artifice of these worlds, from plastic surgery and exaggerated make-up to the eccentricity of the characters who inhabit them. A deliberately uninformative title for a project in which, in reality, there is very little that can be considered natural

PERF Studios / PERF Publishing is a young post-production studio launching PERF Books, a new series of photographic monographs in zine format, with artistic direction by Francesco Valtolina. The series was created to accommodate projects that call for a printed form, while retaining a sense of lightness and a freedom of expression that remain distinct from the more traditional format of a book.