Thomas Sauvin is a Beijing-based French artist and editor who is also a photography collector.

Often collectioning is the symptom of an obsession that grows systematically day after days , it needs passion, dedication, perseverance and just a little bit of something crazy, like that little thing called love. If you want it, you have to look for it, even if there is the risk that it will turn into an everending search, that can be unsuccessfull too. Thomas Sauvin found it, but he’s still searching. Sometimes it’s difficult to say when a collection may be considered complete, specially for those collections whose desired objects are unlimited.

This is a very tiny part of the Chinese “vintage” images found and collected, with lovely devotion, by Mr. Sauvin. The authors of these photographs are anonymous and we call them amateurs – intended as not professional, but here I add the original concept from the Latin word “amator” that means a person who loves - and I want to present some images of Chinese lovers and couples.

Every day Thomas Sauvin posts on Facebook one of the vintage images from his collections (please read the captions to know more about them) I have selected them, almost randomly, to introduce his passion and all the love that can be seen.

Eliseo Barbàra