Massao Mascaro

Massao Mascaro – Photobooks & Artist Publications

Massao Mascaro (b. 1990, Lille) is a Brussels-based photographer whose work moves between autobiography, topography, and political inquiry. Lokator100 stocks his artist publications as part of its focus on contemporary photography books and independent imprints.

Mascaro's practice is built around an intimate visual grammar — soft focus, tight framing, shallow depth of field — applied to landscapes and spaces that carry cultural and geographical weight. His subjects tend toward the peripheral and overlooked: a plastic bag caught on barbed wire, a discarded door, the edges of inhabited territory. The work resists spectacle in favour of accumulation and inference. Sub Sole, published by Chose Commune in 2021, follows the Mediterranean coastline using the voyage of Ulysses as a loose structural reference — a lyrical, geographically grounded sequence that is consistent with Mascaro's broader concern for how people inhabit and relate to place.

Chose Commune is a French independent publisher whose approach to sequencing and production aligns with Lokator100's interest in considered photobook making. Further titles from the imprint are available in the Photobooks collection.