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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=1751744616"},{"product_id":"architecture-after-war-a-reader","title":"Architecture After War: A Reader - Bohdan Kryzhanovsky (ed.)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eArchitecture After War: A Reader\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by Bohdan Kryzhanovsky and co-published with CANactions, this 256-page volume addresses the architectural and urban questions raised by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on essays by scholars and architects from Ukraine and beyond, it assembles historical precedents and international case studies into a coherent framework for thinking about what reconstruction means — practically and politically — in the aftermath of large-scale destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book moves across urban planning, sustainable design, and the spatial politics of rebuilding, attending to both the material conditions of damaged cities and the human experience of those who must inhabit them again. Its scope is comparative: Ukrainian cities are examined alongside other post-conflict contexts, allowing for a more rigorous analysis than a single-country focus would permit. Readers engaged with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/critical-theory-philosophy\" title=\"Browse our Critical Theory \u0026amp; Philosophy collection\"\u003eCritical Theory \u0026amp; Philosophy\u003c\/a\u003e will find the book's theoretical frameworks — on sovereignty, infrastructure, and collective space — in direct conversation with that tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished bilingually in English and Ukrainian, the volume functions as both a critical reference and a working guide. 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Inspired by 19th-century frontier poetry, this 88-page hardback book with slipcase captures the tension between romantic imagination and contemporary reality. McLennan’s images reveal remnants of a mythic identity—resilient, worn, and evocative—offering a meditative look at landscapes, ranch life, and the poetic isolation of the frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STANLEY\/BARKER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51665866064218,"sku":"9781913288549","price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/no-fences-cover.jpg?v=1752417221"},{"product_id":"huts-temples-castles-ursula-schulz-dornburg","title":"Huts, Temples, Castles – Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (Signed Edition)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHuts, Temples, Castles – Signed Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHuts, Temples, Castles\u003c\/em\u003e brings together photographs made by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/ursula-schulz-dornburg\" title=\"Browse all Ursula Schulz-Dornburg titles at Lokator100\"\u003eUrsula Schulz-Dornburg\u003c\/a\u003e in Amsterdam between 1969 and 1970. The subject is Jongensland Oost, an experimental postwar playground where children built and dismantled improvised structures — huts, towers, shelters, compounds — from salvaged materials, outside adult planning and institutional logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchulz-Dornburg does not treat these constructions as charming or incidental. She photographs them as a serious form of vernacular architecture: built, inhabited, altered, and rebuilt. The resulting series occupies an unusual position between photobook, architectural record, and artist publication. The images register material decisions and social use rather than romanticising play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead now, the work feels contemporary again — not only as a document of postwar Amsterdam but as a study of how imagination produces space before institutions define it. An essay by architectural historian Tom Wilkinson frames the social and spatial questions the Jongensland series raises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMACK Books\u003c\/a\u003e in September 2022, the edition is produced as an embossed hardcover. Its restraint — in sequencing, in design, in scale — suits the material it contains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSigned edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is the signed edition of \u003cem\u003eHuts, Temples, Castles\u003c\/em\u003e. It includes an artist-signed slip bound into the inside back cover. The underlying book is the standard 2022 MACK edition; the signed slip introduces a direct trace of Ursula Schulz-Dornburg into the physical copy. For collectors of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e and artist publications, the distinction is discreet but meaningful — the archival character of the object is preserved while the copy itself becomes singular.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51681665909082,"sku":"9781913620820","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/front-cover-child-on-handmade-hut.jpg?v=1779285045"},{"product_id":"message-from-the-exterior-mark-ruwedel","title":"Message from the Exterior - Mark Ruwedel","description":"\u003ch2\u003eDesert Houses East of Los Angeles\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMessage from the Exterior\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mark-ruwedel\" title=\"Browse all Mark Ruwedel titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eMark Ruwedel\u003c\/a\u003e documenting abandoned houses in desert regions east of Los Angeles. Published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMack Books\u003c\/a\u003e in September 2016, the book is structured in two parts and contains 128 pages with 77 colour plates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eTwo Sections, One Subject\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first section, \"Desert Houses,\" presents 68 structures photographed as vernacular architecture — improvised shelters that record the impulse to settle in a landscape that resists it. Ruwedel treats each building as a layered document: the desert terrain functions as a palimpsest of habitation, abandonment, and natural reclamation. The second section, \"Dusk,\" returns to the same subject under fading light, where the boundary between presence and absence becomes less distinct.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMessage from the Exterior\u003c\/em\u003e sits within a sustained body of work attentive to how human activity leaves marks on terrain. For related titles, browse \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse photography and photobook titles at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach copy is documented accurately before dispatch. 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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. 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Returning 25 years after his youth, Yamamoto documents abandoned mine shafts, industrial architecture, and landscapes caught between decay and memory. Across 40 black-and-white photographs, the work becomes an attempt to stop time and fix a “skin of light” onto places filled with history and silence, blending documentary vision with deeply personal reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52032757956954,"sku":"SOK-YAMAMOTO-BERG-2016-HC","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/berg-werk-sincei-yamamoto-front-cover.jpg?v=1756309251"},{"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 documents the interior worlds of Tokyo's greenhouses through a series of intensely dark black-and-white photographs. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/takeshi-shinoda\" title=\"Browse all titles by Takeshi Shinoda at Lokator100\"\u003eTakeshi Shinoda\u003c\/a\u003e avoids architectural framing entirely, directing attention instead toward dense foliage, condensation, and the heavy, pressurised atmosphere that defines these spaces. The resulting images sit somewhere between botanical record and psychological study — tropical plants rendered strange by contrast and proximity, familiar forms made difficult to place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work follows \u003cem\u003eStation\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), in which Shinoda turned the same method on Tokyo's train stations — finding in their transitional, functional spaces a quality of suspension and unease. \u003cem\u003eIm Treibhaus\u003c\/em\u003e applies that same discipline to a subject that resists easy categorisation: not quite nature, not quite architecture, but a controlled environment where the organic has been made to perform. The continuity between the two books is one of approach rather than subject: the same high-contrast printing, the same refusal of documentary distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Sokyusha at Lokator100\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e in 2025, the book is a hardcover measuring 261 × 216 mm across 58 pages, containing 54 images. The edition is limited to 200 copies.\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, where it sits alongside other works in Japanese fine art and urban photography. 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The photographs were made by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/taiji-matsue\" title=\"Browse all Taiji Matsue titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eTaiji Matsue\u003c\/a\u003e in 1983, when the island had been closed for nearly a decade following the end of coal extraction. The 2017 edition presents these images digitally remastered from the original negatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHashima was developed from the late nineteenth century as a coal-mining facility, its land area expanded artificially and its surface covered in dense concrete residential and industrial structures. At its peak it housed thousands of workers and their families on a landmass of less than seven hectares. Operations ceased in 1974, and the island was closed to the public. 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The 118 monochrome photographs that make up \u003cem\u003eTibet\u003c\/em\u003e document nomads, pilgrims, and city residents encountered over the course of that extended stay. The sequence moves between close portraits, village scenes, and open landscapes without imposing a fixed hierarchy among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work records everyday life at a moment of imminent social and economic change. Arimoto's approach is direct and observational — sustained proximity rather than dramatic intervention. This black-and-white documentary photobook holds its ground between the intimate and the territorial, between individual faces and the wider conditions shaping them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition expands the original \u003cem\u003ePortrait of Tibet\u003c\/em\u003e with images not included in the 1999 publication, making it the most complete presentation of the project to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eOrdering and Dispatch\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition details and edition specifics for this copy are documented on the product page in accordance with Lokator100's standard practice. 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The book documents vehicles and transit infrastructure left in place after the dissolution of a vast socialist state, working across Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs are organized as a typology of industrial archaeology. Cable cars, rail lines, aircraft, ships, tanks, trucks, and amusement-park rides are each treated as discrete objects — recorded for their material condition and site context rather than for symbolic weight. The sequence is descriptive and systematic. Each vehicle or structure is presented as a final station: neither mourned nor celebrated, simply documented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe geographic scope connects regions that share a common infrastructural inheritance while diverging sharply in the decades since. Hoshino Ai moves through Eastern Europe and Central Asia without imposing a unified narrative. The work accumulates through repetition and variation — the same categories of object, different states of arrest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompact at 21 × 15 cm and 120 pages, \u003cem\u003eSoviet Transport\u003c\/em\u003e functions equally as documentary fieldwork and as a visual index. It belongs to a body of work in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e concerned with post-Soviet landscape and Soviet-era material culture. Readers engaged with infrastructure studies, typological photography, or the visual history of the post-Soviet space will find the approach direct and the scope precise. The companion volume \u003ca href=\"\/products\/soviet-architectural-design-hoshino-ai-softcover\" title=\"Soviet Architectural Design – a companion photobook by Hoshino Ai\"\u003eSoviet Architectural Design - Hoshino Ai\u003c\/a\u003e applies a related methodology to the built environment of the same regions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tokyo Kirara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52817344364890,"sku":"9784903883670","price":31.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/soviet-transport-front-cover.jpg?v=1778496721"},{"product_id":"soviet-architectural-design-hoshino-ai-softcover","title":"Soviet Architectural Design – Hoshino Ai","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSoviet-Era Bus Stops Across the Eastern Bloc and Central Asia\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoviet Architectural Design\u003c\/em\u003e documents a specific and largely unarchived category of public infrastructure: the roadside bus stop as designed and built across the former Soviet sphere. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hoshino-ai\" title=\"Browse all titles by photographer Hoshino Ai\"\u003eHoshino Ai\u003c\/a\u003e photographs these structures in color, moving through the Eastern Bloc and Central Asia with a typological method — each shelter treated as a discrete object, each image restrained and frontal. The shelters themselves are far from standardized. Sculptural concrete, vivid mosaics, and playful geometry recur across the sequence, the work of local architects, students, and artists operating within the material and ideological conditions of socialist modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book sits at the intersection of documentary photography and design history. Arranged as a catalog-like sequence, it functions as an archive of roadside architecture that faces ongoing loss through renovation, neglect, or demolition. There is no sentimentality in the framing. The images hold to form, surface, and condition. What accumulates across 120 pages is a record of place-specific design decisions made at the margins of official Soviet planning — minor monuments that have rarely been treated as subjects of sustained photographic attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor collectors working across \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e, brutalism, modernism, and Soviet design heritage, the book offers a focused and methodical object. Hoshino Ai's broader practice maps material culture, infrastructure, and the traces of political history embedded in everyday space — a concern that extends directly into her companion title \u003ca href=\"\/products\/soviet-transport-hoshino-ai-softcover\" title=\"Soviet Transport – a companion photobook by Hoshino Ai\"\u003eSoviet Transport\u003c\/a\u003e. Both titles are published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tokyo-kirara\" title=\"Explore the full Tokyo Kirara catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTokyo Kirara\u003c\/a\u003e and share the same observational, catalog-like rhythm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tokyo Kirara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52818678186330,"sku":"9784903883717","price":31.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/soviet-architectural-design-ai-hoshino-front-cover.jpg?v=1778496751"},{"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. Landscape here is in a constant state of becoming, not a subject to be admired but a condition to be read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLundgren has spoken of his work as a contemplation of the shift away from an Earth-centered mythology — a position that informs the restraint of the photographs without reducing them to illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlass Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e is part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STANLEY\/BARKER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53153090634074,"sku":"9781913288785","price":74.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/glass-mountain-michael-lundgren-front-cover.jpg?v=1778428237"},{"product_id":"cheryomushki-nikolay-bakharev","title":"Cheryomushki — Nikolay Bakharev","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSoviet Beach Portraits by Nikolay Bakharev\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCheryomushki\u003c\/strong\u003e is a \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our curated photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e title by \u003cstrong\u003eNikolay Bakharev\u003c\/strong\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stanley-barker\" title=\"Browse all Stanley\/Barker publications available at Lokator100\"\u003eSTANLEY\/BARKER\u003c\/a\u003e in May 2025. The work draws from portraits made at river and lake beaches near Novokuznetsk, in Soviet Siberia, where workers and families gathered during periods of rest. These sites occupied an unusual position in Soviet public life: among the few spaces where a degree of undress was tolerated without official sanction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBakharev worked in close physical proximity to his sitters, seeking a cooperative rather than observational dynamic. The resulting images carry no staging and no distance. Couples, families, and groups of friends are recorded in ordinary moments — not arranged for the camera, but present with it. The character of the work is restrained and direct: an archive of everyday Soviet intimacy made without theatrical intent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is bound in hardback with a tipped-on cover image. It runs to 120 pages and measures 240 × 270 mm. \u003cem\u003eCheryomushki\u003c\/em\u003e is the second Bakharev title from the publisher, following \u003cem\u003eNovokuznetsk\u003c\/em\u003e, released by STANLEY\/BARKER in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STANLEY\/BARKER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53153928216922,"sku":"9781913288822","price":69.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/cheryomushki-nikolay-bakharev-cover.jpg?v=1778432899"},{"product_id":"suu-taemin-ha","title":"süü – Taemin Ha","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003esüü\u003c\/em\u003e — A Taemin Ha Photobook on the Mongolian Plains\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/taemin-ha\" title=\"View all Taemin Ha publications at Lokator100\"\u003eTaemin Ha\u003c\/a\u003e's photobook \u003cem\u003esüü\u003c\/em\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/chose-commune\" title=\"Browse all Chose Commune titles at Lokator100\"\u003eChose Commune\u003c\/a\u003e, documents time spent with a family on the Mongolian plains. The book moves through the seasons: portraits of children, wide rural landscapes, and animals observed at close range, structured by changes in weather and light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLight is a recurring element in Taemin Ha's practice. In \u003cem\u003esüü\u003c\/em\u003e it appears as spring clarity, summer glare, and winter haze — and falls indoors, filtering through the window of a yurt without turning the scenes into spectacle. The sequence holds a consistent pace, letting seasonal shifts carry the rhythm of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoems by Erdenesolongo Batchuluun and Byambajav Gombojav run throughout the book. Text and image share the page as parallel registers rather than caption and illustration, forming a sustained correspondence between two modes of attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEditing and sequencing are by Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, who also handled the design in collaboration with Perrine Serre. The book is published as a first edition by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/chose-commune\" title=\"Browse all Chose Commune titles at Lokator100\"\u003eChose Commune\u003c\/a\u003e in October 2025, in French, English, and Mongolian. It runs to 80 pages with 38 plates, at 30 × 24.5 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003esüü\u003c\/em\u003e is part of Lokator100's \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue, selected for its formal restraint and sustained engagement with its subject.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chose Commune","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53361916281178,"sku":"9791096383535","price":46.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/suu-taemin-ha-back-cover-hand-illustration.jpg?v=1778432828"},{"product_id":"hotshoe-issue-209-an-emotional-landscape","title":"Hotshoe Issue 209: An Emotional Landscape","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHotshoe Issue 209 – An Emotional Landscape\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"\/collections\/hotshoe\" title=\"Browse all Hotshoe magazine issues at Lokator100\"\u003eHotshoe\u003c\/a\u003e Issue 209, titled \u003cem\u003eAn Emotional Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e, is organised around nature, emotion, and human interdependence with the non-human world — whether encountered in urban or rural settings. The editorial premise holds consistently across the issue: nature treated as a condition of feeling and perception, not merely as subject matter. Published in 2023, the issue runs to 192 pages in paperback format, 16 × 23 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eContributors\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe issue brings together thirteen photographers working across distinct visual registers. Portfolios are contributed by Trent Parke, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"\/collections\/stephen-gill\" title=\"Browse Stephen Gill titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eStephen Gill\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"\/collections\/mimi-plumb\" title=\"Browse Mimi Plumb titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eMimi Plumb\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\" title=\"Browse Pia-Paulina Guilmoth titles available at Lokator100\"\u003ePia-Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e, Jem Southam, Yana Wernicke, Rinko Kawauchi, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"\/collections\/takashi-homma\" title=\"Browse Takashi Homma titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eTakashi Homma\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"\/collections\/masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Browse Masahisa Fukase photobooks at Lokator100\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase\u003c\/a\u003e, Jack Davison, Robbie Lawrence, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"\/collections\/michael-lundgren\" title=\"Browse Michael Lundgren titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eMichael Lundgren\u003c\/a\u003e, and Gregory Crewdson. The range spans quiet observation, constructed cinematic scenes, lyrical documentary, and work rooted in atmosphere and the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eEditorial Structure\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the portfolios, the issue includes an extended Q\u0026amp;A that deepens the thematic context. The \u003cem\u003eCrude Metaphors\u003c\/em\u003e section presents a short story by Cal Brocket written in response to photographs by Robin Schwartz — a format that positions text and image as mutual commentary rather than caption and illustration. Four photobook reviews round out the issue, offering a survey of recent publishing in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis copy is available from Lokator100, dispatched from Germany with tracking and careful packaging. Further issues and titles are listed in the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook and photography collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hotshoe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53394139742554,"sku":"HOTSHOE-209","price":32.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/hotshoe-issue-209-an-emotional-landscape-cover.jpg?v=1783612345"},{"product_id":"mimi-plumb-landfall","title":"Mimi Plumb – Landfall","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMimi Plumb Landfall — Early-1980s Photographs, Published by TBW Books\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMimi Plumb Landfall\u003c\/em\u003e is assembled from photographs made in the early 1980s in California. Burnt interiors, scraped landscapes, and casual bodies occupy the same frame without hierarchy or explanation. The book was published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tbw-books\" title=\"Explore the full TBW Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTBW Books\u003c\/a\u003e and received shortlist recognition for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 53 duotone plates move between man-made damage and unguarded portrait moments. Nothing is dramatized. The printing — duotone throughout — flattens incident and atmosphere into the same tonal register, which is precise to the material. This is 1980s American photography held at a controlled distance: the mood of pressure is documented, not interpreted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sequence is deliberate. Transitions are tight; resolution is withheld. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e of this period often reach for narrative closure. \u003cem\u003eLandfall\u003c\/em\u003e refuses it. The book ends where it begins — in an atmosphere that has not shifted, only accumulated. The editorial logic is consistent with the wider \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tbw-books\" title=\"Explore the full TBW Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTBW Books\u003c\/a\u003e approach: clean pacing, no decorative comfort, nothing added to ease the looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mimi-plumb\" title=\"Browse all Mimi Plumb titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eMimi Plumb\u003c\/a\u003e's focus on California and on the social atmosphere of adolescence runs through the work without becoming its stated subject. The photographs are documentary in method and oblique in address. Collectors and researchers working in early-1980s American photography or in duotone photobook production will find the object technically and editorially coherent. Her later work \u003ca href=\"\/products\/megalith-still-mimi-plumb\" title=\"View Megalith-Still by Mimi Plumb — another title by the same photographer\"\u003eMegalith-Still - Mimi Plumb\u003c\/a\u003e extends related concerns and is also available at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TBW Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53466236191066,"sku":"TBW-PLUMB-LANDFALL","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/mimi-plumb-landfall-front-cover.jpg?v=1778496771"},{"product_id":"surveillance-tsutomu-yamagata","title":"Surveillance – Tsutomu Yamagata","description":"\u003ch2\u003eObservation Without Encounter: \u003cem\u003eSurveillance\u003c\/em\u003e by Tsutomu Yamagata\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tsutomu-yamagata\" title=\"Browse all Tsutomu Yamagata titles at Lokator100\"\u003eTsutomu Yamagata\u003c\/a\u003e has built a practice around people at the edges of ordinary social visibility. 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The photographer was absent. The apparatus was not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat this arrangement produces is an image-space that resists easy categorisation. The women knew they might be photographed. At moments they appear to address the camera directly, composing themselves for an unseen lens. At other moments they move through their rooms without apparent awareness of it. The resulting photographs sit between performance and inattention, between self-presentation and its suspension — an unstable register that the book neither resolves nor dramatises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe conceptual argument of \u003cem\u003eSurveillance\u003c\/em\u003e concerns the asymmetry of the gaze: who looks, under what conditions, and what that looking produces in the person who is seen. The book does not present intimacy as access. It frames the camera as a mediating instrument that structures the relationship between observer and observed before any image is made. 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