{"title":"Daisuke Matsumoto","description":"\u003ch2\u003eDaisuke Matsumoto – Photobooks \u0026amp; Artist Publications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaisuke Matsumoto is a Japanese photographer born in Tottori Prefecture in 1985, working at the intersection of documentary instinct and darkroom-inflected image-making. His photographs tend toward psychological intensity — compressed, nocturnal, and attentive to the edges of everyday life in ways that resist easy categorisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis publishing and exhibition history is closely tied to \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Browse all Zen Foto Gallery titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e, Tokyo's principal platform for Japanese photography books. His debut publication appeared through that imprint in 2012, the same year he exhibited internationally at art book fairs in Hong Kong, Taipei, and Los Angeles. His artist publications are collected alongside other key figures in contemporary Japanese photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLokator100 is an independent bookstore based in Germany. Titles in this collection are listed with accurate bibliographic documentation and condition notes. Orders are dispatched carefully from Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor related titles in Japanese and international photography, browse the full \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"akaruimirai-daisuke-matsumoto","title":"AKARUIMIRAI – Daisuke Matsumoto","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAKARUIMIRAI\u003c\/em\u003e — Daisuke Matsumoto\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAKARUIMIRAI\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/daisuke-matsumoto\" title=\"Browse all titles by Daisuke Matsumoto\"\u003eDaisuke Matsumoto\u003c\/a\u003e constructs a photographic sequence organised around conflict, mishap, and human failure. The images do not resolve — they accumulate, circling the same errors and accidents as though repetition were the only available logic. Matsumoto's approach is punk-inflected and critical: humour and cruelty coexist without hierarchy, and creation and destruction are treated as interchangeable states. The result is a vision of a future that does not improve so much as recur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore the full Zen Foto Gallery catalogue\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAKARUIMIRAI\u003c\/em\u003e is a signed softcover edition of 500 copies. The book measures 220 × 148 mm, runs to 24 pages, and contains 16 photographs. It is a compact object — modest in scale, considered in form — consistent with the small-edition artist publications that define Zen Foto Gallery's output in contemporary Japanese photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMatsumoto was born in 1985 in Tottori, Japan, and is based in Tokyo. His practice draws on real-world events, staged scenes, and everyday objects to produce work that is simultaneously satirical and analytical. \u003cem\u003eAKARUIMIRAI\u003c\/em\u003e sits alongside his other titles available here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/tsumitobatsu-daisuke-matsumoto-zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"View TSUMITOBATSU, another photobook by Daisuke Matsumoto\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTSUMITOBATSU\u003c\/em\u003e – Daisuke Matsumoto\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/sekainoheiwa-daisuke-matsumoto\" title=\"View SEKAINOHEIWA, Daisuke Matsumoto's debut photobook\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSEKAINOHEIWA\u003c\/em\u003e — Daisuke Matsumoto\u003c\/a\u003e. Further titles in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Discover our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e are available through the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52687501525338,"sku":"ZFG-DM-AKARUIMIRAI-2014-SC","price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/akaruimirai-daisuke-matsumoto-cover.jpg?v=1778677878"},{"product_id":"sekainoheiwa-daisuke-matsumoto","title":"SEKAINOHEIWA — Daisuke Matsumoto","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSEKAINOHEIWA — Daisuke Matsumoto\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSEKAINOHEIWA\u003c\/em\u003e — the title translates from Japanese as \"world peace\" — is a photobook by Daisuke Matsumoto published by Zen Foto Gallery in 2012. The work operates in the register of performance and staged photography, posing questions about justice, its forms, and its relationship to what we call peace. The publisher's statement frames the inquiry directly: who is the hero, who is the monster, and what does justice — blind, unfeeling, neither dying nor reborn — actually call into being?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatsumoto constructs images rather than documents them. The photographic approach is deliberate and theatrical, with each frame functioning as a proposition rather than a record. The 36-page hardcover contains 28 images, compact in format at 220 × 148 mm, and was issued as a limited edition of 1,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eExhibition Context\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in conjunction with a solo exhibition at Zen Foto Gallery in 2012. It appeared at Art HK12 in Hong Kong, the Tokyo Art Book Fair, and the LA Art Book Fair — a selection of international contexts that situated it within the photobook and artist-publication circuit of that period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54139629044058,"sku":"978-4-905453-11-6","price":32.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/sekainoheiwa-daisuke-matsumoto-cover.jpg?v=1778528801"},{"product_id":"tsumitobatsu-daisuke-matsumoto-zen-foto-gallery","title":"TSUMITOBATSU – Daisuke Matsumoto","description":"\u003ch2\u003eReliance, Consequence, and What Gets Lost\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eClinging to something — a person, a belief, a convenience — carries a cost that only becomes visible in its absence. In \u003cem\u003eTSUMITOBATSU\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/daisuke-matsumoto\" title=\"Browse all titles by Daisuke Matsumoto\"\u003eDaisuke Matsumoto\u003c\/a\u003e works through staged and performance-based photography to trace that cost: the moral weight of dependency, the rough treatment of those nearby, and the quiet disappearance of what one failed to notice in time. The 35 images across 56 pages do not illustrate a narrative so much as hold a condition still long enough to examine it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 2014 by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all publications from Zen Foto Gallery\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e in a hardcover edition of 500 copies, the book is bilingual in English and Japanese. It belongs to a body of work in Japanese contemporary photography that treats the constructed image as a site of ethical inquiry rather than aesthetic display. Further titles in this vein can be found in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated selection of photobooks\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54139641332058,"sku":"TSUMITOBATSU","price":42.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/tsumitobatsu-daisuke-matsumoto-cover.jpg?v=1778529451"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/daisuke-matsumoto.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}