Congratulations to Douglas Gayeton, whose book SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town is being released on September 29th by Welcome Books. I just received my copies of the book and the final result is absolutely stunning. The book is a photographic journey of Douglas’ time spent in Pistoia, a small town in Tuscany. The images themselves are amazing, as he often shot thousands of photos of a scene and then later went back and selected only those that best captured his memories of the scene, combining them into a tableu and adding handwritten notes and stories. Critics have called the technique “flat film” because of the way it folds time into a single image. The end result is simply fascinating, as you not only get to see these wonderful images, but you also learn something about the people in the images and their lives.

In fact, here’s a video where Douglas both explains the technique and shows how the images come together. Wonderful stuff and well worth checking out.

The book also features an introduction by legendary chef Alice Waters, as well as a preface by the founder of the Slow Food Movement, Carlo Petrini.