{"title":"Animals, Plants \u0026 Other Lives","description":"\u003ch2\u003eLife Beyond the Human Subject\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together photobooks, artist publications, and visual studies in which animals, plants, fungi, and ecological environments occupy the foreground — not as backdrop or symbol, but as subjects with their own presence and logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe works gathered here approach nonhuman life as something that actively shapes perception and conditions how we understand space, time, and relation. Whether through documentary attention, experimental image-making, or extended observation, each title treats the nonhuman world as a structuring force rather than a setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe selection spans a range of forms and registers, from precise field-based photography to more oblique or formally experimental approaches. What holds the collection together is a shared refusal to place the human figure at the centre — or to treat other forms of life as incidental to it.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pigeons-stephen-gill-signed","title":"Pigeons (Signed) – Stephen Gill","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePigeons – Stephen Gill\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/nobody-books\" title=\"View all titles published by Nobody Books in our catalogue\"\u003eNobody Books\u003c\/a\u003e in association with the Archive of Modern Conflict, \u003cem\u003ePigeons\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by British photographer \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stephen-gill\" title=\"Browse all Stephen Gill titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eStephen Gill\u003c\/a\u003e that turns its lens not on pigeons as we see them, but on the city as they inhabit it. The book contains 29 colour photographs made from within the birds' own environment — beneath bridges, inside rusted structures, through the gaps and crannies of post-industrial urban space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGill's approach inverts the anthropocentric perspective. Rather than placing the pigeon within a human frame, the images enter a parallel urban world where our architecture reads as natural landscape — bridges as beaver dams, buildings as termite mounds. The presence of juvenile birds, rarely documented and almost mythological in the popular imagination, runs through the series as a quiet revelation. Text by Will Self accompanies the photographs, extending the conceptual inversion into language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is clothbound in rough linen with a silk-screened cover — a physical object whose materiality echoes its subject. This copy is signed. It was printed at EBS in Verona on Mohawk Superfine white eggshell stock and first published in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther titles in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection are available to browse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nobody Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51314301305178,"sku":"9780957536975","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/pigeons-stephen-gill-cover.jpg?v=1785791547"},{"product_id":"the-pillar-stephen-gill","title":"The Pillar (signed) - Stephen Gill","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"969\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"457\"\u003eThe Pillar\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditative and mesmerizing photobook by Stephen Gill, created over four years in the quiet, open landscapes of Skåne, southern Sweden. In the middle of a seemingly empty field, the artist installed a slender wooden post—just six centimetres wide and one and a half metres tall—and mounted a motion-sensor camera to face it. The result is a sublime and almost mystical series of photographs that capture birds visiting this unexpected stage: perching, feeding, resting, flying, or simply pausing mid-motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"971\" data-end=\"1464\"\u003eFar from being merely observational, these images open a portal into a hidden world—one that exists all around us but often escapes our notice. Each photo reveals a unique, ephemeral moment: a bird caught in flight with wings spread like calligraphic lines, a beak caught in the wind, feathers soaking in rain or glistening in snowlight. Gill’s fixed frame becomes a theatre for endless variation, proving that even within the most minimal setup, nature’s choreography is never the same twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1466\" data-end=\"1762\"\u003eThe work resonates with deep existential overtones—echoed and explored in a poetic essay by acclaimed writer Karl Ove Knausgård, included in a separate 12-page booklet. He reflects on how these fleeting encounters transform a repetitive, seasonal landscape into a space of singularity and wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"2080\"\u003eWinner of multiple international photobook prizes—including Les Rencontres d’Arles, PHotoESPAÑA, and Svensk bokkonst—\u003cem data-start=\"1881\" data-end=\"1893\"\u003eThe Pillar\u003c\/em\u003e is a luminous example of conceptual nature photography. Signed by the artist and crafted with exceptional attention to bookmaking materials, it is a rare and thoughtful collector’s item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nobody Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51322101498202,"sku":"9789198523300","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/the-pillar-stephen-gill-front-cover.jpg?v=1785771424"},{"product_id":"night-procession-stephen-gill","title":"Night Procession – Stephen Gill (Signed)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eNight Procession — Infrared Wildlife Photography by Stephen Gill\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 2014 and 2017, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stephen-gill\" title=\"Browse all Stephen Gill titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eStephen Gill\u003c\/a\u003e set motion-triggered infrared cameras at low positions against trees in the forests of southern Sweden, then withdrew. What returned were 86 colour plates recording the nocturnal movements of foxes, wild boars, deer, hares, mice, owls, snails, birds of prey, and fledglings — each animal unaware, each caught mid-passage through a world that ordinarily remains beyond the range of human observation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe method was a systematic relinquishment of authorial control. Gill determined the placement of each camera — near a water source, along a likely path — but the shutter was triggered by the animals themselves. The infrared flash operates outside the visible spectrum of its subjects, producing images that carry the quality of apparition rather than document: figures emerging from total darkness, suspended in the moment of their own unknowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarl Ove Knausgård contributes a 16-page essay, issued as a separate saddle-stitched booklet (132 × 210 mm), printed on Takeo Satogami Pink (81 gsm) with a cover on Takeo Tant Select TS-3 (116 gsm). In Knausgård's words: \u003cem\u003e\"The photographs in this book have a ceremonial quality about them, as if the animals and the birds present themselves to us one by one… we see them the way they are in themselves, in their own world, normally so out of reach from our own. The world we see in these images is a secret world… the mystery seems only to thicken.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main volume is a foil-embossed three-part clothbound hardcover, 216 × 270 mm, printed on Mohawk Superfine at Göteborgs Tryckeriet in Sweden and bound at S.R. Buege in Germany. It runs to 160 pages across 86 colour plates, with endpapers carrying paintings by Gill. Design is by Greger Ulf Nilson. The book received the \u003cstrong\u003eBenrido HARIBAN Award\u003c\/strong\u003e in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/nobody-books\" title=\"Explore the full Nobody Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eNobody Books\u003c\/a\u003e, Gill's own imprint. Each copy in this edition is signed by Stephen Gill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther titles in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated selection of photobooks at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection, and in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animals-plants-other-lives\" title=\"Explore photobooks on nature, animals, and nonhuman life\"\u003eAnimals, Plants \u0026amp; Other Lives\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAbout Stephen Gill\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stephen-gill\" title=\"Browse all Stephen Gill titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eStephen Gill\u003c\/a\u003e (b. 1971, Bristol) is a British conceptual photographer whose practice is built around the systematic relinquishment of authorial control. Rather than directing his subjects, he has buried colour prints to let the land mark them, placed insects and seeds inside film chambers to create in-camera photograms, and used energy drinks to partially process film. In \u003cem\u003eNight Procession\u003c\/em\u003e, the animals themselves became the authors — triggering the camera while Gill slept. He is the founder of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/nobody-books\" title=\"Explore the full Nobody Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eNobody Books\u003c\/a\u003e, through which he publishes his own work with close attention to materials and physical form. Other signed titles available include \u003ca href=\"\/products\/please-notify-the-sun-stephen-gill\" title=\"View Please Notify the Sun – signed edition by Stephen Gill\"\u003ePlease Notify the Sun\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-pillar-stephen-gill\" title=\"View The Pillar – signed edition by Stephen Gill\"\u003eThe Pillar\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/pigeons-stephen-gill-signed\" title=\"View Pigeons – signed edition by Stephen Gill\"\u003ePigeons\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nobody Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51339367154010,"sku":"9780957536937","price":200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/night-procession-stephen-gill-signed-front-cover.jpg?v=1789368618"},{"product_id":"beasts-and-beauties-gareth-janus","title":"Beasts And Beauties: Cinema's Golden Age Of Gorilla Men, Killer Apes \u0026 Missing Links - Gareth Hugh Janus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis stunning volume explores a forgotten sub-genre of early horror and fantasy cinema: the era of gorilla men, killer apes, and monstrous evolutionary hybrids. Covering the period from 1908 to 1949, the book presents an annotated filmography and over 150 rare production stills—many previously unpublished. From the infamous \u003cem data-end=\"873\" data-start=\"865\"\u003eIngagi\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem data-end=\"888\" data-start=\"877\"\u003eKing Kong\u003c\/em\u003e, this collection charts the symbolic and visual obsession with apes in film history and its cultural implications. A must-have for collectors of obscure film memorabilia and lovers of strange cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deicide Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534970782042,"sku":"9781840686937","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/beasts-ans-beauties-cover.jpg?v=1785838992"},{"product_id":"flowers-drink-the-river-pia-paulina-guilmoth","title":"Flowers Drink the River – Pia-Paulina Guilmoth","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\" title=\"View all Pia-Paulina Guilmoth titles at Lokator100\"\u003ePia-Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stanley-barker\" title=\"Browse all Stanley\/Barker titles at Lokator100\"\u003eSTANLEY\/BARKER\u003c\/a\u003e. Shot on a large format camera using analogue methods, the project documents forests, rivers, and fields in rural Maine — treating landscape not as backdrop but as active participant in the image-making process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work spans the first two years of Guilmoth's gender transition. It records a small working-class community with attention to the textures of visibility, risk, and proximity. Nocturnal scenes predominate: flash-lit, often hazy, marked by optical aberrations that register duration and the particular quality of night. Moths, wet ground, spider silk, and improvised rituals appear alongside documentary moments and staged gestures. The book is direct about the body and sexuality, and includes explicit scenes. It describes its subject as it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA central aspect of Guilmoth's process is duration. Small sculptures are assembled from natural materials, then left for the environment to alter — the final image shaped as much by weather, insects, and chance as by the photographer's intent. This patience is structural to the work, not incidental to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume is 3\/4 + Swiss bound, 30 × 24 cm, and includes a tipped-in facsimile 4×5\" contact print along with a fabric tip-on nameplate. It sits within Lokator100's \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our photography and photobook catalogue\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue as a considered example of the artist photobook form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMore by this artist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/fishworm-pia-paulina-guilmoth-jesse-bull-saffire\" title=\"Fishworm – another publication featuring Pia-Paulina Guilmoth\"\u003eFishworm\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/sleep-creek-dylan-hausthor-pia-paulina-guilmoth\" title=\"Sleep Creek – a publication featuring Pia-Paulina Guilmoth\"\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/a\u003e are two further publications featuring Pia-Paulina Guilmoth available at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanley\/Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51594719396186,"sku":"9781913288761","price":120.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/pink-cover-spiderweb-motif.jpg?v=1785785490"},{"product_id":"elv-massimo-leardini","title":"ELV - Massimo Leardini","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"604\"\u003eELV\u003c\/em\u003e (Norwegian for “river”) by Italian-born, Norway-based photographer Massimo Leardini is a meditative 104-page hardcover photobook showcasing his long-term collaborative work with a select group of models. Photographed during Scandinavian summers from 2014 to 2019, the images blend contorted human forms with primordial forests and riverbanks under elongated, tactile Nordic light. The book is presented as a 335×236 mm, 3\/4 cloth-bound edition with foil-stamped boards and a dust jacket. \u003cem data-start=\"1093\" data-end=\"1098\"\u003eELV\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds like a visual puzzle—an exploration of body, landscape, shadow, and memory through poetic, high-contrast imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanley\/Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51605032960346,"sku":"9781913288112","price":48.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/elv-massimo-leardini-cover.jpg?v=1785768670"},{"product_id":"ravens-masahisa-fukase","title":"Ravens – Masahisa Fukase","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRavens by Masahisa Fukase — MACK 2017 Bilingual Facsimile of Karasu\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e is the 2017 \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMack Books\u003c\/a\u003e facsimile of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Browse all Masahisa Fukase titles at Lokator100\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase\u003c\/a\u003e's 1986 photobook \u003cem\u003eKarasu\u003c\/em\u003e — a sequence in which the raven functions not as ornithological subject but as a vehicle for grief, solitude, and self-projection. Produced as a bilingual edition in an embossed linen hardback housed in a silkscreened slipcase, this reprint returns the work to its original structure while adding a new essay by Tomo Kosuga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs in \u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e were made in the years following Fukase's divorce from Yoko Wanibe, and are closely associated with a train journey back toward his home prefecture of Hokkaido. The sequence accumulates black wings, coastal light, and blurred distance into something that operates less as documentation than as a sustained internal state. The raven becomes a figure onto which isolation and loss are gradually projected — a formal strategy as much as a biographical one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted across 80 tritone plates and 13 colour plates within 148 pages, the book's visual logic depends on tonal compression and the slow accumulation of a single motif. The tritone printing in this MACK edition sustains the tonal range that makes the sequence cohere. Tomo Kosuga's essay, included in both Japanese and English, situates the work within Fukase's broader biography and the conditions under which \u003cem\u003eKarasu\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e holds a significant position in the history of the photobook medium — not because of its subject matter alone, but because of the precision with which Fukase bound a period of personal dissolution to a photographic form. The work is available in the Lokator100 \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue as a central reference point in post-war Japanese photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Publisher\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition was produced by MACK Books, a London-based publisher known for its close attention to photobook production and its work with both historical and contemporary photographers. The 2017 facsimile of \u003cem\u003eKarasu\u003c\/em\u003e was produced with care for the original's physical format — square, substantial, and designed to be read as a sequence. Further titles from the publisher are available in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMack Books\u003c\/a\u003e collection at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51700176650586,"sku":"9781910164839","price":85.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/ravens-masahisa-fukase-slipcase-english-title.jpg?v=1788799903"},{"product_id":"megalith-still-mimi-plumb","title":"Megalith-Still - Mimi Plumb","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMegalith-Still – Mimi Plumb\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMegalith-Still\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mimi-plumb\" title=\"View all Mimi Plumb photobooks and publications at Lokator100\"\u003eMimi Plumb\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stanley-barker\" title=\"Browse all Stanley\/Barker titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eSTANLEY\/BARKER\u003c\/a\u003e in 2023. Printed in tritone and three-quarter bound in fibrous wool paper with foil stamping on the cover, the volume runs to 136 pages at 250 × 220 mm. It is issued as a first edition, first impression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs were made during repeated summer visits to Kings Canyon in the Sierra Nevada. Plumb's attention stays close to a band of horses — resting bodies, faces, hooves, and the slow, unglamorous logic of the meadow. There is no spectacle. The sequence is built on proximity and patience, on what accumulates when a photographer returns to the same subject across seasons without imposing a predetermined narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's structure is observational and steady. Its subject, insofar as it can be named, is the negotiation between contact and distance — the photographer's presence registered in the animals' indifference or awareness, the viewer's relationship to that threshold. Kings Canyon functions not as backdrop but as condition: the Sierra Nevada light, the scale of the landscape against the bodies of the horses, the silence implied by the tritone palette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an American landscape photobook, \u003cem\u003eMegalith-Still\u003c\/em\u003e resists the genre's tendency toward the sublime. It is a sustained, quiet study — the kind that rewards slow looking and does not exhaust itself on first viewing. Readers with an interest in the intersection of documentary attention and poetic restraint may also find \u003ca href=\"\/products\/hotshoe-issue-209-an-emotional-landscape\" title=\"Hotshoe Issue 209 – editorial photography reading at Lokator100\"\u003eHotshoe Issue 209: An Emotional Landscape\u003c\/a\u003e contextually relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003ePhysical Object and Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTritone printing produces a tonal density appropriate to the subject — neither the warmth of duotone nor the flatness of standard offset. The three-quarter binding in fibrous wool paper gives the book a tactile weight that distinguishes it from conventionally cased editions. Foil stamping on the cover is restrained in application. This is the first edition, first impression, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stanley-barker\" title=\"Browse all Stanley\/Barker titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eSTANLEY\/BARKER\u003c\/a\u003e, London, 2023. ISBN: 9781913288563.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition and Dispatch\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is new, first edition, first impression. Orders are dispatched from Germany the next business day, with tracked shipping and careful packaging. The full \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue is available to browse at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanley\/Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51716182376794,"sku":"9781913288563","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/megalith-still-cover.jpg?v=1789374015"},{"product_id":"symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-takashi-homma","title":"Symphony - mushrooms from the forest (Softcover) - Takashi Homma","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRadioactive mushrooms, white backgrounds, and the forest as contaminated archive\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest\u003c\/em\u003e is a 2019 softcover photobook by Takashi Homma, published by Case Publishing. The project takes radioactive mushrooms as its subject — gathered across four geographies — and photographs them against a white background, isolating each specimen with a precision closer to taxonomy than to landscape photography. Interspersed forest views hold the environmental context without resolving it into narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe structural reference point is Ed Ruscha's typological method: repetition as a form of inquiry rather than illustration. Homma photographs mushrooms collected in Scandinavia, Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Stony Point — each location carrying its own history of nuclear contamination or proximity to it. The white-background images recur throughout the sequence with the regularity of specimens in a field guide, while the forest inserts introduce scale, weather, and geography without explaining the contamination they imply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a transnational document that moves between foraging culture, radiation, and ecological memory without collapsing any of them into the others. The book remains visually flat and procedural even as the subject matter accumulates weight across its 296 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe softcover edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 328 × 258 × 25 mm, the softcover edition is a large-format object. The sequence of 139 images across 296 pages gives the book a measured, expansive rhythm — the white-background photographs return at intervals that feel calibrated rather than arbitrary. 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Both editions are available within the Photobooks section of the catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Case Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52002582626650,"sku":"9784908526343","price":70.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-textured-book-cover-crease.jpg?v=1793450954"},{"product_id":"ash-new-edition-muge","title":"Ash (New Edition) — Muge","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAsh (New Edition) — Muge\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAsh (New Edition)\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by Chinese photographer Muge, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e and Muge Gallery in September 2019. It is a revised edition of the original 2013 publication and presents Muge's sustained engagement with nature, time, and material form through three sequential sections: \u003cem\u003eStill Life\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShan Shui\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eScenery\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eStructure and Concept\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book's organisation is both conceptual and physical. The three sections are stacked on top of each other, forming a staircase-like design — a structure that mirrors the layered, accumulative logic of Muge's images. Each photograph is printed in black and gray and finished with glossy varnish, matte varnish, or special color varnish, selected according to the condition of each individual subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work is grounded in Lao Tze's Theory of Nature. Muge approaches his subjects not as an observer from outside but as someone who belongs to the environment, allowing objects, landscapes, and places the space to weather, grow, decay, and exist on their own terms. Still life objects, mountain forms, water, and stone recur across the three sections as anchors of an extended meditation on cycles of change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Muge's own words:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"When I used the large format camera to re-understand my hometown as it is now, I've discovered that all things in the real world derive from our internal desire: the Karma cycle of yearning for nature, destroying nature, and mending nature (...) These images are taken from the understandings gleaned from my daily life, conveying the traces of time and history in nature, and a person's thoughts of the future when faced with reality.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePublication History\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first edition of \u003cem\u003eAsh\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Zen Foto Gallery in 2013. This new edition, released in September 2019, marks a reissue of that work. Both editions were produced in Japan under the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e imprint. The 2019 edition coincided with a period of expanded international exhibition activity for Muge, including his solo presentation at Format Photo Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52017004216666,"sku":"9784905453871","price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/ash-new-edition-muge-cover-front.jpg?v=1792071802"},{"product_id":"im-treibhaus-takeshi-shinoda","title":"Im Treibhaus – Takeshi Shinoda","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTokyo Greenhouses in Black and White\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIm Treibhaus\u003c\/em\u003e (Japanese title: 温室) turns \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/takeshi-shinoda\" title=\"Browse all titles by Takeshi Shinoda at Lokator100\"\u003eTakeshi Shinoda\u003c\/a\u003e's camera on the interiors of Tokyo's greenhouses — spaces defined not by their architecture but by what accumulates inside them: oppressive humidity, the sickly-sweet weight of tropical air, and a quality of enclosure that makes the familiar difficult to place. Working in high-contrast black-and-white, Shinoda produces prints that are unusually dark, rendering tropical plants as something between botanical specimen and psychological pressure — organic forms made strange by their controlled environment, at once exotic and almost unnatural.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book follows \u003cem\u003eStation\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), in which Shinoda applied the same close-reading method to Tokyo's train stations — transitional, functional spaces carrying a persistent quality of suspension. \u003cem\u003eIm Treibhaus\u003c\/em\u003e extends that discipline to a subject that resists easy classification: not quite nature, not quite architecture, but a managed environment in which the organic is made to perform. The continuity between the two books is methodological rather than thematic — the same refusal of documentary distance, the same high-contrast printing, the same attention to atmosphere over structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Sokyusha at Lokator100\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e (蒼穹舎, Tokyo) on 31 May 2025, the book is a hardcover measuring 261 × 216 mm across 58 pages, containing 54 photographs. The edition is limited to 200 copies. Supporting material includes a list of photographed locations and the photographer's biography, both in Japanese and English. Producer: Michitaka Ota. Designer: Akihiko Tsukamoto. Translator: Bonnie Pong-Wai Ma. Printer: SunM Color Co., Ltd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIm Treibhaus\u003c\/em\u003e is part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the Photography \u0026amp; Photobooks collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100. It will be of interest to collectors of photobooks, readers drawn to \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\" title=\"Browse Japanese photobooks available at Lokator100\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e, and those attentive to the intersection of urban space and natural form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52034004287834,"sku":"SOKY-2025-SHINODA-IMTREIBHAUS","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/im-treibhaus-takeshi-shinoda-cover.jpg?v=1789368918"},{"product_id":"wandering-dog-mai-nakama","title":"Wandering Dog – Mai Nakama","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWandering Dog — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mai-nakama\"\u003eMai Nakama\u003c\/a\u003e, GRAF Publishers, 2024\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWandering Dog\u003c\/em\u003e (巡る犬) is a hardcover photobook by Mai Nakama, published by GRAF Publishers on 20 September 2024 as a first edition, first printing. The book was conceived following an encounter described by the photographer: on a farm during her travels, she met a pregnant cow she hoped to observe through calving. The cow was later found dead. This event opens a sequence that extends across 56 pages and 43 black-and-white photographs, moving through animals, land, and the rhythms of everyday life in an unnamed rural Japanese town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNakama's images alternate between intimate close-up and stark, wide composition. Her black-and-white printing favours contrast over gradation, so that light appears to emerge from darkness rather than illuminate it evenly. The book does not comment on its subject matter; it records it, holding scenes of birth, death, and ordinary rural labour within the same visual register.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an object, \u003cem\u003eWandering Dog\u003c\/em\u003e measures 210 × 252 mm and is bound as a thread-sewn hardcover with hollow-back construction, printed and bound in Japan by SunM Color Co., Ltd. The book was designed by Katsuya Kato, edited and published under Shuhei Motoyama, with English translation by Shinichiro Ishii. Text appears in parallel Japanese and English. The edition is limited to 300 copies; it is not numbered per available production data, and no ISBN has been confirmed for this title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Photographer\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mai-nakama\"\u003eMai Nakama\u003c\/a\u003e (b. 1987, Yamaguchi; lives and works in Tokyo) is a Japanese photographer whose practice centres on memory, everyday life, and the boundaries between presence and absence. Her work has been shown at Nikon Salon in Tokyo, Osaka, and Shinjuku, at Book Marute, Gallery Kaido, and at Das Japanische Haus in Germany. Her photographs are held in the collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, and in 2021 she received the 1Wall Kohara Encouragement Award. \u003cem\u003eWandering Dog\u003c\/em\u003e continues the black-and-white, narrative-rooted approach that runs through her broader body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders exploring Japanese photobook publishing more widely can browse our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection, or the wider \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotography Books\u003c\/a\u003e selection at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GRAF Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52047630696794,"sku":"JP-GRAF-2024-MN-WDOG","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/wandering-dog-mai-nakama-cover.jpg?v=1789901256"},{"product_id":"symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-hardcover-takashi-homma","title":"Symphony - mushrooms from the forest (Hardcover) - Takashi Homma","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSymphony – mushrooms from the forest: Hardcover Photobook by Takashi Homma\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest\u003c\/em\u003e is a hardcover photobook by Takashi Homma, published by Case Publishing in 2019. The project is built around a precise premise: mushrooms collected from landscapes marked by radioactive contamination, photographed as specimens and arranged with the care of a scientific catalogue. The result is a book that holds its subject at a measured distance while keeping the weight of that subject fully present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach mushroom is isolated against a white background. The presentation is clinical — no staging, no atmosphere, no editorial pressure. The sequencing reads like an inventory, which is part of the logic. The images accumulate quietly, and that accumulation carries the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHomma gathered specimens across four sites: \u003cstrong\u003eScandinavia, Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Stony Point\u003c\/strong\u003e. Between the specimen plates, photographs of forests and incidental travel views interrupt the sequence. These pauses return the collection to its source — the actual terrain, the actual forest, the conditions under which these things were found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the \u003cstrong\u003e2020 Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e. It was issued as a limited edition of 300 copies. The format — 334 × 265 mm, 296 pages — is designed for sustained attention, not quick handling. This is a title within the broader Photobooks category that rewards slow reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-takashi-homma\" title=\"View the softcover edition of Symphony – mushrooms from the forest by Takashi Homma\"\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest (Softcover)\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Case Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52673837105498,"sku":"9784908526350","price":100.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-hardcover-spine-damage-1.jpg?v=1778319833"},{"product_id":"sasuke-masahisa-fukase","title":"Sasuke — Masahisa Fukase","description":"\u003ch2\u003eCat photographs in four chapters\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSasuke\u003c\/strong\u003e collects \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Browse all Masahisa Fukase titles at Lokator100\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase\u003c\/a\u003e's long-running cat photographs into a single hardcover volume structured across four chapters. The book presents 115 images of two companions — Sasuke and Tomoe — photographed with a closeness that keeps the distance between subject and photographer in constant question. Repetition and proximity are the book's primary formal tools. The sequence accumulates rather than narrates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reading that positions \u003cem\u003eSasuke\u003c\/em\u003e alongside \u003ca href=\"\/products\/ravens-masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Ravens by Masahisa Fukase — photobook available at Lokator100\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e as indirect self-portraiture is well-supported by the images. The cats' eyes function as reflective surfaces; the photographer's position stays insistently close. What the book tracks across 192 pages is less the animals themselves than the quality of attention Fukase brings to them: sustained, inward, and resistant to sentiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn essay by Tomo Kosuga of the Masahisa Fukase Archive is included. The text is in Japanese only. Published in 2021 by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/akaaka-art-publishing\" title=\"All Akaaka Art Publishing titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eAkaaka Art Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e, the book sits within a body of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ephotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e in which formal structure and autobiographical pressure are inseparable. Readers interested in the broader arc of Fukase's practice may also want to consider the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/masahisa-fukase-1961-1991-retrospective\" title=\"Masahisa Fukase retrospective photobook at Lokator100\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase 1961–1991 Retrospective\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/yoko-masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Yoko by Masahisa Fukase — photobook at Lokator100\"\u003eYoko\u003c\/a\u003e, both available through the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\" title=\"Japanese photobooks available at Lokator100\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akaaka Art Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52790008643930,"sku":"9784865411362","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/sasuke-masahisa-fukase-front-cover.jpg?v=1778428126"},{"product_id":"sleep-creek-dylan-hausthor-pia-paulina-guilmoth","title":"Sleep Creek – Dylan Hausthor \u0026 Pia Paulina Guilmoth","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/em\u003e — Collaborative Photobook by Dylan Hausthor and Pia Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/em\u003e is a collaborative photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/dylan-hausthor\"\u003eDylan Hausthor\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003ePia-Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e, weaving New England backwoods rituals, animals, and human figures into a dark, ambiguous rural myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book constructs a world in which documentary observation and staged construction are held in deliberate, unresolved tension. Its visual logic is nocturnal and accumulative: smoke, skin, fur, mud, and water are registered with the same granular attention, refusing a hierarchy between the human and the nonhuman, the witnessed and the arranged. Animals appear only when being hunted; humans balance between an unapologetic existence and an abyss of secrecy. Colonial histories, rural labour, and intimate bodies share the frame without explanation or resolution. The boundary between fact and fiction is not blurred carelessly — it is held open as a structural condition of the work. As the artists write: \"There are no beginnings, middles, or ends in their experiences of the world, nor a hard line between the experienced and the directed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is entirely shot in New England — a region Hausthor and Guilmoth chose not to represent as a regional identity, but to use as a stage for ideas of story, myth, and character that exceed any specific geography. In their own words: \"Colonialism is apparent everywhere, every square foot of woods has been tainted by something human, and every pond is always covered with algae. There is anonymity in all of their characters, akin to the faceless identity of small-town New England.\" The sequence does not move toward a single conclusion; it circles back through the same terrain, the same figures, and the same uncertain light until place itself becomes the central subject. As Hausthor and Guilmoth have stated: \"There's something deeply personal about many of these images, but we hope that there is something more universal in the intensity of the characters and their interactions with the land.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVivian Ewing writes of the work: \"The town is quiet, the streets are empty. But if you take the road into the backwoods, you'll start to hear some noises. A branch snaps and there are voices, laughing. A few lights are on at one house and a fire burns behind a barn. And if you relax your eyes you can see that there are people all around. The folks who live further out don't follow the same rules. They have their own idea of what the night is for. Hausthor and Guilmoth listen to the people who tell them stories of birth and death and their photographs are remnants of those who live along a little creek that floods on the same day each spring. This book is the result of many days in and around the stream and a testament to the power of the myths that fuel the towns in the distance.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotography Books\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100, and sits naturally alongside work in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animals-plants-other-lives\"\u003eAnimals, Plants \u0026amp; Other Lives\u003c\/a\u003e thematic collection. Published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/void-photo\"\u003eVoid Photo\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Artists\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePia-Paulina Guilmoth and Dylan Hausthor work collaboratively in the forests and small towns of the Northeastern United States. Their practice centres on long-term engagement with place, using photography, bookmaking, and small-scale publishing to investigate how stories are told through images. As co-founders of Wilt Press, established in the winter of 2015, they produce editions that move between documentary observation and constructed narrative. In their shared projects, Guilmoth and Hausthor draw on rural communities, local myths, and family histories to question the boundaries of evidence and fiction. Their work resists clear resolution, building worlds in which each photograph functions simultaneously as a fragment of lived experience and a carefully shaped scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOther titles by the artists available at Lokator100: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/what-the-rain-might-bring-dylan-hausthor\"\u003eWhat the Rain Might Bring\u003c\/a\u003e by Dylan Hausthor; \u003ca href=\"\/products\/flowers-drink-the-river-pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/at-night-gardens-grow-pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003eAt Night Gardens Grow\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/fishworm-pia-paulina-guilmoth-jesse-bull-saffire\"\u003eFishworm\u003c\/a\u003e by Pia-Paulina Guilmoth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBibliographic Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Void\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2nd Print — 2000 copies (1st Print: 1250 copies)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Foiled open-spine softcover\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 17 × 21.5 cm\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-618-5479-06-0\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Void","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52802513797466,"sku":"9786185479060","price":52.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/sleep-creek-dylan-hausthor-pia-paulina-guilmoth-goat-cover.jpg?v=1789368228"},{"product_id":"fishworm-pia-paulina-guilmoth-jesse-bull-saffire","title":"Fishworm — Pia Paulina Guilmoth \u0026 Jesse Bull Saffire","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFishworm — a Xerox-based photobook from central Maine\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFishworm does not organise rural memory into something clean or stable. The book keeps its material close to its damaged state: mould, runoff, cheap toner, torn edges, ghostly snapshots, local reports, discarded magazines, animals, children, junk, weather. What survives here survives in pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003ePia Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e and Jesse Bull Saffire do not present central Maine as document or nostalgia, but as a place sifted through by hand — inhabited, distrusted, and reassembled. The Xerox texture is not incidental. It refuses refinement. Instead of restoration, the book works through abrasion, clutter, and stubborn attachment, until debris begins to read like a social history that never intended to become an archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe source material is scavenged: family archive photographs, images taken on a low-resolution digital camera while trespassing and searching abandoned houses and junk shops, town reports, and forgotten newspapers. Guilmoth draws on the same territory she has worked across her practice — queer life in rural Maine, the unstable boundary between tenderness and threat, the way a place accumulates and erodes at once. Her book \u003cem\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/em\u003e reached the shortlist of the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, and Fishworm extends that inquiry into more abrasive, collaborative terrain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJesse Bull Saffire's role in the book is not decorative. She describes herself as a community organiser rather than an artist, and that position shapes what the book is. Fishworm is not built from aesthetic distance; it comes from shared life, local knowledge, scavenging, and a practised closeness to the social and material remains of a place. The collaboration is structural, not supplementary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/void-photo\"\u003eVoid Photo\u003c\/a\u003e in 2025, the book is part of a broader \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue that takes the form and production of the book seriously as a critical choice. The softcover with poster dust jacket, the Xerox-based printing, the 232-page count, the edition of 1000 copies — none of these are incidental. They are the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePia Paulina Guilmoth \u0026amp; Jesse Bull Saffire\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePia Paulina Guilmoth lives and works in rural central Maine. Her work moves between queer life, place, memory, and the unstable boundary between tenderness and threat. Her book \u003ca href=\"\/products\/flowers-drink-the-river-pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/a\u003e reached the shortlist of the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards. She has also collaborated with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/dylan-hausthor\"\u003eDylan Hausthor\u003c\/a\u003e on \u003ca href=\"\/products\/sleep-creek-dylan-hausthor-pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJesse Bull Saffire describes herself not as an artist but as a community organiser, working on land return to the Wabanaki Nations. In Fishworm, that position is structural: the book is not built from distance, but from shared life, local knowledge, scavenging, and a practised closeness to the social and material remains of place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Void","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53008450945370,"sku":"9786185479466","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/fishworm-pia-paulina-guilmoth-jesse-bull-saffire-cover.jpg?v=1793463721"},{"product_id":"glass-mountain-michael-lundgren","title":"Glass Mountain – Michael Lundgren","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGlass Mountain — A Landscape Photobook by Michael Lundgren\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGlass Mountain\u003c\/strong\u003e is a large-format photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/michael-lundgren\" title=\"View all Michael Lundgren books in the Lokator100 catalogue\"\u003eMichael Lundgren\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stanley-barker\" title=\"Browse all Stanley\/Barker titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eSTANLEY\/BARKER\u003c\/a\u003e in June 2025. The work moves through wilderness sites across the Americas, treating the land not as scenery but as material evidence of geological change and accumulated time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sequence in \u003cstrong\u003eGlass Mountain\u003c\/strong\u003e resists a fixed reading of nature. Lundgren moves between wide distance and close surface — rock, deposit, erosion, light — building a rhythm that implies duration without stating it. The photographs do not explain; they observe. Time registers as scar and residue rather than spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe editing is controlled. Nothing is overworked. The atmosphere is calm, but not reassuring — a quality Lundgren sustains across the full 120-page sequence without resolving into comfort or conclusion. 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The images read as contemporary still life photography that has absorbed something of the Dutch tradition while remaining firmly grounded in a documentary logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithin \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/lia-darjes\" title=\"Browse all titles by Lia Darjes at Lokator100\"\u003eLia Darjes\u003c\/a\u003e's practice, \u003cem\u003ePlates I-XXXI\u003c\/em\u003e extends a preoccupation with still life that was already present in \u003cem\u003eTempora Morte\u003c\/em\u003e, her earlier study of market stalls in Kaliningrad. Where that work exaggerated its subject toward the iconic, \u003cem\u003ePlates I-XXXI\u003c\/em\u003e is quieter and more contingent — dependent on what the motion-triggered camera actually records. 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Produced across three years (2020–2023), the work emerges at a time of collective upheaval and turns resolutely inward. The hyper-local takes centre-stage: made among the artist's immediate communities, the photographs trace networks of love, grief, kinship, shelter, and repair — entanglements that resist summary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book does not proceed by linear sequence. Images accumulate — bodies, places, small gestures, the grain of proximity — without arriving at a resolved narrative. Shadow structures the visual field throughout. Grief and shelter appear alongside one another, neither dramatised nor explained away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKoenning works through fragments and slippages, using them to suggest narrative spaces and communities that remain fluid and open. 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The casebound flexicover volume carries printed black edges and spine, a title as its only cover text, and a text-free interior in which sequencing and material form carry the work in full.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eHausthor's large-format black-and-white photographs move between human, plant, and animal registers, drawing on David Arora's mushroom identification guide as a point of departure. Nature is treated as a site of storytelling, faith, and folklore rather than as neutral subject matter — the images gesture toward pagan, Wiccan, religious, and anarchic ritual without settling on any single reading. An owl in flight, a procession of figures, an infant nursing, a towering mushroom, and spiders in their webs recur across the sequence, each photograph balanced between the eerie and the enchanting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentral to the work is an interest in the instability of fact within documentary photography. Hausthor's practice folds in elements of investigative journalism, disinformation, and staged performance, holding the line between observed and constructed image deliberately unstable. Seven gatefolds punctuate the book at intervals, marking the consecutive nights on which the artist was visited by a moth — a diaristic device that gives the sequence a quiet, ritual rhythm and alters the physical scale of reading at each interruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe absence of text is a formal condition rather than an omission: with no captions or narrative anchor, the gatefolds and the sequencing become the primary instruments through which the work is read. \u003cem\u003eWhat the Rain Might Bring\u003c\/em\u003e sits within a wider field of experimental documentary practice, where constructed and observed imagery are allowed to coexist without hierarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAbout Dylan Hausthor\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eDylan Hausthor (b. 1993, Vermont) is an artist based on an island off the coast of Maine. They hold a BFA from Maine College of Art and an MFA from Yale School of Art. 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This 2026 edition reshapes the work from within: ten previously unseen photographs have been added, three removed, and the sequence and physical design reconsidered — not as revision but as continuation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003ePia-Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e returns to the work five years on, having transitioned in the interim. The photographs are encountered again through a body and a language that have come into alignment, allowing currents that lived within the work from the outset to surface more clearly. The images stand with one foot in contemporary America and the other in a more ancient register — gathered around baptisms, spider silk monuments, funerals, house fires, holes carved into rock, and birth. Carefully constructed large format photographs sit alongside more instinctive documentary images, moving through found and fabricated landscapes that resist fixed location. The setting remains deliberately unstable: never fully named, yet immediately familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe physical design has been reimagined. The book is wrapped in a recycled dust jacket created by Guilmoth using petals and earth, marked with symbols drawn from her practice. Beneath it, exposed stitching gives way to a sequence of previously unseen photographs of spider webs, printed on uncoated stock. Design by Sheret; printed by MAS Matbaa. ISBN 978-1-913288-99-0. 112 pages, 22 × 25 cm. Dedicated to Trula Drinkard-Goolsby, 1915–2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuilmoth lives and makes art in rural central Maine. Working primarily with large format analogue photography, her practice explores transformation, belonging, and the natural world. Her third book, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/flowers-drink-the-river-pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/a\u003e, was published by STANLEY\/BARKER in 2024. Other titles featuring her work — including \u003ca href=\"\/products\/fishworm-pia-paulina-guilmoth-jesse-bull-saffire\"\u003eFishworm\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/sleep-creek-dylan-hausthor-pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/a\u003e — are available in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanley\/Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54660129063258,"sku":"9781913288990","price":63.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/at-night-gardens-grow-pia-paulina-guilmoth-cover-detail.jpg?v=1788629209"},{"product_id":"yamamoto-masao","title":"Yamamoto Masao","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA survey in small prints, from the 1990s to the present\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYamamoto Masao\u003c\/strong\u003e is a 2025 photobook by \u003cstrong\u003eMasao Yamamoto\u003c\/strong\u003e, published by kiku label on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition at 風光 huko, a photography gallery that opened in a renovated townhouse in Kyoto's Okazaki district in October 2025. The book is bilingual, presented in Japanese and English across 72 pages, bound as a hardcover with white cloth boards and a tipped-on cover image. Its dimensions are 270 × 233 × 19 mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume does not confine itself to a single recent series. It draws on Yamamoto's practice from the early 1990s through to more recent work made with large-format cameras and glass wet plates, situating earlier photographs alongside later developments. The subjects recur across decades: birds, animals, trees, flowers, skies and landscapes, organized around Yamamoto's view of human life as continuous with the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYamamoto's original photographs are made on film and printed in gelatin silver, then worked further through toning, scratching and the application of paint — treatments that give the source prints a handled, physical surface. These descriptions refer to the artworks reproduced within the book rather than to any physical alteration of the printed pages themselves. The visual logic owes something to Yamamoto's early training in painting and to his use of empty space; the accompanying texts draw a comparison to haiku, images that gesture toward a mood or scene without settling on one reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book includes an afterword from huko titled \"Echoes of Constructed Space,\" alongside an explanatory text written by Yamamoto for the gallery. Production is credited to Kazuya Sudo of discovery go inc., with design by Takahisa Suzuki of 16 Design Institute and printing by Fujiwara Printing Co., Ltd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Masao Yamamoto\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMasao Yamamoto (山本昌男) was born in 1957 in Gamagori City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He began his art training as a painter, studying oil painting under Goro Saito, before turning to photography. 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Rather than presenting a straightforward sequence of landscape photographs, Haruka Fujita builds the book as a dialogue between photography and the pictorial language of Japanese sliding-screen and folding-screen painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFujita began by photographing sliding panels covered in gold and silver leaf, sourced from an art-supply shop. These images were printed onto photographic paper, after which she layered further photographs — flowers, trees, birds and other natural subjects, shot on 4×5 film — onto the same sheets. The process was carried out by hand in the darkroom, allowing variations in tone, surface texture and the behaviour of the printing itself to enter the final images. The gold and silver leaf belongs to the panels she photographed as source material; it is not applied to the physical pages of the book, and the hand-printing refers to the making of Fujita's original images rather than to the production of the copies themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting photographs combine dark grounds, layered colour and passages of open space. This visual structure extends into the book's physical form: bound as an accordion, or concertina, the connected pages unfold into a continuous sequence, echoing the relationship between individual painted scenes and a longer picture scroll.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by HeHe in Tokyo, this is the 2025 second printing of a book originally issued in 2022. The edition runs to 72 unpaginated pages in a hardcover accordion binding measuring 190 × 151 mm, with colour illustrations throughout. 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Benrido describes the images as drawn from previously published photographs, chosen by the artist and reproduced with close attention to tone and texture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe six prints are supplied loose, housed in a portfolio case with a protective bag, rather than bound as pages. This allows each image to be handled, arranged, or framed individually. The set belongs to Benrido's \u003cstrong\u003eMini Portfolios\u003c\/strong\u003e series, conceived as a way to encounter the publisher's collotype work both in the hand and on display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach sheet measures 203 × 254 mm, printed on Takeo Paper Matt Colour HG; the portfolio case measures 206 × 258 × 8 mm. An information leaflet on the collotype process, in English and Japanese, is included. 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It is not a bound photobook: the sheets are supplied unbound, housed in a protective case, each one intended to be handled, viewed, or framed independently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe portfolio continues a selection Masao Yamamoto began with \u003ca href=\"\/products\/birds-masao-yamamoto\"\u003eBirds\u003c\/a\u003e in 2020, again made jointly with Benrido. The six images reproduce the tonal character of Yamamoto's sepia-toned originals through collotype, a printing process built on a gelatin-based plate rather than a conventional halftone screen. This allows for fine gradation across the photographic image — a quality collotype has historically been used for in the reproduction and preservation of cultural and photographic material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the original photographic print editions of the selected images are no longer available. 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