{"title":"Massao Mascaro","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMassao Mascaro – Photobooks \u0026amp; Artist Publications\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eMassao 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMascaro'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. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/sub-sole-massao-mascaro\" title=\"Sub Sole by Massao Mascaro – view full details and buy\"\u003eSub Sole\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/chose-commune\" title=\"Explore all titles published by Chose Commune\"\u003eChose Commune\u003c\/a\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChose 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 \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobooks collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sub-sole-massao-mascaro","title":"Sub Sole – Massao Mascaro","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMediterranean Routes, Exile, and the Itinerary of Ulysses\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSub Sole\u003c\/em\u003e (Latin: beneath the sun) is a photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/massao-mascaro\" title=\"View all Massao Mascaro publications at Lokator100\"\u003eMassao Mascaro\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/chose-commune\" title=\"Browse all Chose Commune titles at Lokator100\"\u003eChose Commune\u003c\/a\u003e in September 2021. Made between 2017 and 2020, the work follows the mythological itinerary of Ulysses across seven Mediterranean cities — Ceuta, Naples, Athens, Palermo, Istanbul, Tunis, and Lampedusa — while remaining close to present-day realities: borders, crossings, migration, and displacement. The Mediterranean functions here as both geographic territory and narrative field, a space where ancient literary routes and contemporary political conditions converge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross 168 pages, Mascaro sequences 81 duotone photographs that operate as encounters rather than documentary reportage. Soft focus, tight cropping, and shallow depth of field give the images a tactile, proximate quality. The photographs are accompanied by a text by Federico Clavarino, which adds a parallel register without directing the images toward a fixed reading. The book is part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our photography and photobook catalogue\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe physical object is a section-sewn silkscreened hardcover, 24.6 × 29 cm, trilingual in English, French, and Italian. Design is by Bureau Kayser; editorial direction by Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi. First edition, ISBN 979-10-96383-25-2.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chose Commune","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53365390377306,"sku":"9791096383252","price":46.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/sub-sole-front-cover.jpg?v=1778432798"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/massao-mascaro.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}