Blurb from the book: 

"IDEA RELEASE MARCH 2026 IDEA’s first book of 2026 is Alice Mann’s THE NIGHT IS YOUNG . This is a book of South African school-leavers at their Matric Balls. Photographed between 2018 and 2023, and at thirteen different high schools, the book presents a comprehensive study of South African youth at a momentous point in their lives. The book is designed by Stuart Smith and clothbound in a vibrant blue with a gilded title, fittingly regal for the nights within. Each of these events have been long prepared for, long-longed for — an ultimate crescendo of the creation of self. This is a prepared portrait of who they are. The school corridors are their Met Steps, the dining hall their Oscars stage: it is their big day, and they go big..."

Clothbound hardcover with tip-on image and gold foiling on spine and back

28 x 23cm 112 pages

First edition of 500