tatsmood
Illustrator of Pensa (mientos) sentitatsmood is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Valencia in Spain. She contacted éditions pépé in 2023 to offer her collaboration on a project. The following year, as she was spending the spring in Slovenia, she was called to illustrate Silvia Marz Alfonso’s poetry. She put a finishing touch to these beautiful poems thanks to her soft and moving illustrations with intentionally fragile and faltering lines. They were published in Pensa (mientos) senti in October 2024.
Silvia Marz Alfonso
Poet of Pensa (mientos) sentiSilvia Marz Alfonso was born in the Valencian Community of Spain. She has been writing ever since she was a young woman. Equally gifted as a yoga teacher and a personal trainer, she is especially connected to her body, emotions, and spirituality, which adds profound sincerity and authenticity to her poetry. After writing for over a decade, she finally decided to publish a selection of her work with éditions pépé in Pensa (mientos) senti (2024), a poetry book illustrated by tatsmood. Alongside this first publication, she is already working on a second volume.
Catherine Walsh
Photographer of Zoom booksCatherine Walsh is a former ballet dancer from Ireland who moved to New York City, United States, and retrained as a photographer shortly before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Studying in art school during the first and second lockdowns, her determination to learn and create encouraged her to schedule photo shoots with dancers over Zoom. In 2023, she published the photographs captured during these calls in Zoom books together with éditions pépé. Her insatiable thirst for creativity, her experience as a performer, and her unique perspective on the world lead her to explore new creative endeavours, such as fashion styling and conceptual arts.
Mora Ojea
Writer and photographer of A poc a pocMora Ojea is an Argentinian multi-disciplinary artist who settled in Valencia, Spain, at the end of 2020. In 2022, she published her first collection of short stories and photography, A poc a poc with éditions pépé. A few months later, she launched a closed-door concept restaurant called Puerta 8 in Valencia. It grew as she travelled around Spain, Argentina, and elsewhere. From 2023, she taught herself how to mix and started to perform as a DJ in private, then public, events, both in her hometown and in her adopted city.
Pénélope Delaur
Founder of éditions pépé and author of Women on the streetsPénélope Delaur is a French graphic designer and artistic director who left Paris, France for Valencia, Spain in 2020. As she was getting to know the new city she moved into, she picked up an interest in the names of the streets and observed a lack of representativeness of women. She published the first edition of Women on the streets in 2021, and concurrently started a publishing house, éditions pépé, which focuses on women and feminism. After she published two more artists, she launched an updated and more thorough edition of her book in 2023. She has written many essays, poems, and lyrics since arriving in Spanish territory.
- 'On the frustration of my bittersweet smiles', éditions pépé (2024)
- 'Rimbaud, narcissism and emotional dependency in an infernal delirium', éditions pépé (2024)
- Women on the streets, second edition, éditions pépé (2023)
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'Love spells', The Vendor, Onomatopee (2023)
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'L’affront', Medium (2023)
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'Rose, thorn, and bud: Voltaire’s garden in a simple, reflexive game', Medium (2023)
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'Notre feu, allumette: is it love, or just a fling?', Medium (2023)
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'Must I write? Rilke’s advice to sit outside a café and go within', Medium (2023)
- Rimbaud et la dépendance affective d’une Vierge folle, Medium (2023)
- Women on the streets, first edition, éditions pépé (2021)
Songs and podcasts
- 'Trafics', Divina, Spotify (2024)
- 'Fin', Divina, Spotify (2024)
- L’affront, SoundCloud (2023)
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Notre feu, allumette, SoundCloud (2023)
- Outside a café, SoundCloud (2023)