{"title":"Mai Nakama","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMai Nakama\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMai Nakama (born 1987, Yamaguchi) is a Tokyo-based Japanese photographer whose practice centres on black-and-white imagery drawn from rural Japan — life, death, and the textures of daily existence rendered in stark, intimate compositions. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Das Japanische Haus e.V. in Leipzig, Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection gathers her photobooks and artist publications available through Lokator100. The primary title held is \u003ca href=\"\/products\/wandering-dog-mai-nakama\" title=\"View Wandering Dog by Mai Nakama\"\u003eWandering Dog\u003c\/a\u003e, a 2024 limited-edition photobook published by Graf Publishers, comprising 43 black-and-white photographs. It sits within the broader field of contemporary Japanese photography represented across our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated selection of photobooks\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach title is dispatched carefully from Germany. Bibliographic details and condition notes are provided where relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wandering-dog-mai-nakama","title":"Wandering Dog – Mai Nakama","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWandering Dog — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mai-nakama\" title=\"Browse all titles by Mai Nakama at Lokator100\"\u003eMai Nakama\u003c\/a\u003e, Graf Publishers, 2024\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWandering Dog\u003c\/em\u003e is a hardcover photobook published by Graf Publishers in 2024 in a limited edition of 300 copies. The work is grounded in black-and-white photography and moves through themes of life, death, and transience as observed in a rural Japanese town. Its opening sequence — centred on the death of a cow — establishes a register that the book sustains across 43 photographs: close attention to animals, land, and the rhythms of everyday existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNakama's visual method is precise rather than lyrical. She works with close-ups and stark compositions, using the contrast between light and dark not as atmosphere but as structure. The 56-page sequence alternates between proximity and distance, between the particular and the general, without resolving into sentiment. The book does not editorialize its subject matter; it observes it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a physical object, \u003cem\u003eWandering Dog\u003c\/em\u003e is contained and deliberate — 56 pages, 43 photographs, hardcover binding, issued in an edition of 300. Graf Publishers, an independent Japanese publisher, has produced the book with the material restraint the work demands. The edition is not numbered in the source data, and no ISBN has been confirmed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor buyers interested in Japanese contemporary photography and the photobook as a form, this title sits within a wider field available through our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection 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-front-cover-butterflies.jpg?v=1756395962"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/mai-nakama.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}