Title: The Precipice
Photographer: Tony Chirinos
Publisher: Gnomic Book
Edition: 1st edition
Dimensions: 215 x 280 x 14 mm, 650 grams
Pages: 96 pages
ISBN: 978-1-7338877-6-2

About the book

The Precipice is the summation of nearly two decades spent working as a biomedical photographer in Miami. Chirinos threads the needle between the sometimes delicate, often brutal world of surgical intervention. The book is separated into three main bodies: surgical photographs of living subjects; vibrant typologies of exquisitely photographed tools; and the journey to the afterlife. The Precipice draws back the curtain to a world which most of us never see, where human fragility and resilience coexist in an uneasy equilibrium. Featuring essays by Michelle Otero and Eugenie Shinkle, and a poem by Claudia Isidron, The Precipice is simultaneously lyrical and bleak, a celebration of life and an unflinching observation of what follows.

- Gnomic Book