{"title":"Photography Books \u0026 Photobooks","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePhotobooks, Monographs, and Photographic Publications\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis section brings together photobooks, photographic monographs, and artist-led publications in which photography is the primary medium. The selection moves from postwar and documentary positions through to contemporary work addressing landscape, identity, memory, private life, and the construction of photographic sequences. Publications are drawn from independent presses alongside established photographic imprints.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eHow Listings Are Documented\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach listing includes publisher, year, format, edition, and condition notes. All publications are shipped from Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pigeons-stephen-gill-signed","title":"Pigeons (Signed) – Stephen Gill","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePigeons – Stephen Gill\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/nobody-books\" title=\"View all titles published by Nobody Books in our catalogue\"\u003eNobody Books\u003c\/a\u003e in association with the Archive of Modern Conflict, \u003cem\u003ePigeons\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by British photographer \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stephen-gill\" title=\"Browse all Stephen Gill titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eStephen Gill\u003c\/a\u003e that turns its lens not on pigeons as we see them, but on the city as they inhabit it. The book contains 29 colour photographs made from within the birds' own environment — beneath bridges, inside rusted structures, through the gaps and crannies of post-industrial urban space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGill's approach inverts the anthropocentric perspective. Rather than placing the pigeon within a human frame, the images enter a parallel urban world where our architecture reads as natural landscape — bridges as beaver dams, buildings as termite mounds. The presence of juvenile birds, rarely documented and almost mythological in the popular imagination, runs through the series as a quiet revelation. Text by Will Self accompanies the photographs, extending the conceptual inversion into language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is clothbound in rough linen with a silk-screened cover — a physical object whose materiality echoes its subject. This copy is signed. It was printed at EBS in Verona on Mohawk Superfine white eggshell stock and first published in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther titles in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection are available to browse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nobody Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51314301305178,"sku":"9780957536975","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/pigeons-stephen-gill-cover.jpg?v=1785791547"},{"product_id":"the-pillar-stephen-gill","title":"The Pillar (signed) - Stephen Gill","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"969\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"457\"\u003eThe Pillar\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditative and mesmerizing photobook by Stephen Gill, created over four years in the quiet, open landscapes of Skåne, southern Sweden. In the middle of a seemingly empty field, the artist installed a slender wooden post—just six centimetres wide and one and a half metres tall—and mounted a motion-sensor camera to face it. The result is a sublime and almost mystical series of photographs that capture birds visiting this unexpected stage: perching, feeding, resting, flying, or simply pausing mid-motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"971\" data-end=\"1464\"\u003eFar from being merely observational, these images open a portal into a hidden world—one that exists all around us but often escapes our notice. Each photo reveals a unique, ephemeral moment: a bird caught in flight with wings spread like calligraphic lines, a beak caught in the wind, feathers soaking in rain or glistening in snowlight. Gill’s fixed frame becomes a theatre for endless variation, proving that even within the most minimal setup, nature’s choreography is never the same twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1466\" data-end=\"1762\"\u003eThe work resonates with deep existential overtones—echoed and explored in a poetic essay by acclaimed writer Karl Ove Knausgård, included in a separate 12-page booklet. He reflects on how these fleeting encounters transform a repetitive, seasonal landscape into a space of singularity and wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"2080\"\u003eWinner of multiple international photobook prizes—including Les Rencontres d’Arles, PHotoESPAÑA, and Svensk bokkonst—\u003cem data-start=\"1881\" data-end=\"1893\"\u003eThe Pillar\u003c\/em\u003e is a luminous example of conceptual nature photography. Signed by the artist and crafted with exceptional attention to bookmaking materials, it is a rare and thoughtful collector’s item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nobody Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51322101498202,"sku":"9789198523300","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/the-pillar-stephen-gill-front-cover.jpg?v=1785771424"},{"product_id":"please-notify-the-sun-stephen-gill","title":"Please Notify the Sun (signed) - Stephen Gill","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"2083\" data-end=\"2420\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"2083\" data-end=\"2106\"\u003ePlease Notify the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary photobook by British artist Stephen Gill, created during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. As the world fell into a suspended state and external movement became severely restricted, Gill embarked on a radical inward journey—into the microscopic universe of a single fish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2422\" data-end=\"2841\"\u003eAfter nine attempts and thirty hours of fishing, he finally caught the subject of his exploration in April 2020. Using a microscope, a specially rigged camera, lights, and tremendous patience, Gill photographed what lay within. The result is not a scientific record, but a surreal and almost cosmic world: caves, oceans, rocks, suns, clouds of blood, imagined landscapes—like something between dreams and alien planets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2843\" data-end=\"3070\"\u003eThis visual journey is accompanied by an essay by renowned Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård, who reflects on the wonder, strangeness, and perceptual mystery of what lies beneath the surface—both literally and metaphorically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3072\" data-end=\"3350\"\u003ePublished by Nobody Books, this meticulously crafted edition features a foil-embossed three-part clothbound hardcover, printed by Narayana Press in Denmark and bound in Germany. It includes a separately printed 12-page booklet with Knausgård’s essay and is signed by the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nobody Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51335868612954,"sku":"9789198523324","price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/stephen-gill-please-notify-the-sun-signed-copy-843854.jpg?v=1748859954"},{"product_id":"night-procession-stephen-gill","title":"Night Procession – Stephen Gill (Signed)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eNight Procession — Infrared Wildlife Photography by Stephen Gill\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 2014 and 2017, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stephen-gill\" title=\"Browse all Stephen Gill titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eStephen Gill\u003c\/a\u003e set motion-triggered infrared cameras at low positions against trees in the forests of southern Sweden, then withdrew. What returned were 86 colour plates recording the nocturnal movements of foxes, wild boars, deer, hares, mice, owls, snails, birds of prey, and fledglings — each animal unaware, each caught mid-passage through a world that ordinarily remains beyond the range of human observation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe method was a systematic relinquishment of authorial control. Gill determined the placement of each camera — near a water source, along a likely path — but the shutter was triggered by the animals themselves. The infrared flash operates outside the visible spectrum of its subjects, producing images that carry the quality of apparition rather than document: figures emerging from total darkness, suspended in the moment of their own unknowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarl Ove Knausgård contributes a 16-page essay, issued as a separate saddle-stitched booklet (132 × 210 mm), printed on Takeo Satogami Pink (81 gsm) with a cover on Takeo Tant Select TS-3 (116 gsm). In Knausgård's words: \u003cem\u003e\"The photographs in this book have a ceremonial quality about them, as if the animals and the birds present themselves to us one by one… we see them the way they are in themselves, in their own world, normally so out of reach from our own. The world we see in these images is a secret world… the mystery seems only to thicken.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main volume is a foil-embossed three-part clothbound hardcover, 216 × 270 mm, printed on Mohawk Superfine at Göteborgs Tryckeriet in Sweden and bound at S.R. Buege in Germany. It runs to 160 pages across 86 colour plates, with endpapers carrying paintings by Gill. Design is by Greger Ulf Nilson. The book received the \u003cstrong\u003eBenrido HARIBAN Award\u003c\/strong\u003e in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/nobody-books\" title=\"Explore the full Nobody Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eNobody Books\u003c\/a\u003e, Gill's own imprint. Each copy in this edition is signed by Stephen Gill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther titles in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated selection of photobooks at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection, and in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animals-plants-other-lives\" title=\"Explore photobooks on nature, animals, and nonhuman life\"\u003eAnimals, Plants \u0026amp; Other Lives\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAbout Stephen Gill\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stephen-gill\" title=\"Browse all Stephen Gill titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eStephen Gill\u003c\/a\u003e (b. 1971, Bristol) is a British conceptual photographer whose practice is built around the systematic relinquishment of authorial control. Rather than directing his subjects, he has buried colour prints to let the land mark them, placed insects and seeds inside film chambers to create in-camera photograms, and used energy drinks to partially process film. In \u003cem\u003eNight Procession\u003c\/em\u003e, the animals themselves became the authors — triggering the camera while Gill slept. He is the founder of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/nobody-books\" title=\"Explore the full Nobody Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eNobody Books\u003c\/a\u003e, through which he publishes his own work with close attention to materials and physical form. Other signed titles available include \u003ca href=\"\/products\/please-notify-the-sun-stephen-gill\" title=\"View Please Notify the Sun – signed edition by Stephen Gill\"\u003ePlease Notify the Sun\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-pillar-stephen-gill\" title=\"View The Pillar – signed edition by Stephen Gill\"\u003eThe Pillar\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/pigeons-stephen-gill-signed\" title=\"View Pigeons – signed edition by Stephen Gill\"\u003ePigeons\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nobody Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51339367154010,"sku":"9780957536937","price":200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/night-procession-stephen-gill-signed-front-cover.jpg?v=1789368618"},{"product_id":"for-a-fleeting-moment-simone-kappeler","title":"For a Fleeting Moment – Simone Kappeler","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePolaroid studies and a sound collaboration\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor a Fleeting Moment\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book by Swiss photographer Simone Kappeler devoted exclusively to her Polaroid work, made between 2011 and 2023. The images move between the delicate and the dreamlike, the strange and the distant, drawn from a range of cameras and film stocks that included infrared, disposable, and instant formats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book developed through a collaboration with Tokyo-based musician Tomotsugu Nakamura, whose compositions combine acoustic fragments, electronics, and field recordings into minimalist soundscapes. A download code for his accompanying music on Bandcamp is included with each copy, placing the photographs in dialogue with sound rather than presenting them in isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by the French label IIKKI, the book appeared as a one-shot companion to \u003cem\u003eTé De Flores Silvestres\u003c\/em\u003e (IIKKI 025), both titles exploring the possibilities of Polaroid photography within the publisher's project-based approach. This hardcover edition was produced as a single print run of 700 hand-numbered and hand-stamped copies, with no reprints planned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKappeler, born in 1952 in Frauenfeld, studied photography at the Zurich University of the Arts after earlier studies in German literature and art history. Her earlier monograph, \u003cem\u003eSeile. Fluss. Nacht. Fotografien 1964–2011\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Hatje Cantz. Nakamura's music has previously been released by Kaico, Audiobulb Records, and LAAPS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IIKKI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51362885796186,"sku":"978-2-9586157-3-4","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/for-a-fleeting-moment-simone-kappeler-tomotsugu-nakamura-white-embossed-cover-corner.jpg?v=1793534243"},{"product_id":"alveare-matthias-heiderich","title":"Alveare – Matthias Heiderich","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAlveare: Photography and Sound in Dialogue\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlveare\u003c\/em\u003e documents the monumental social housing projects built in post-war Italy by architects pursuing affordable, large-scale dwelling solutions. Berlin-based photographer Matthias Heiderich turns his lens on structures such as Nuovo Corviale and Rozzol Melara, recording their concrete mass alongside the small human adjustments — altered facades, improvised additions — that mark decades of inhabitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeiderich works within a German tradition of architectural photography defined by typological rigor. As critic Gwen Lafage has written of his approach, the influence of that lineage is unmistakable: like the Bechers before him, Heiderich is less occupied with the human figure than with the structures people shape and inhabit, yet his images remain charged with human presence throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs are accompanied by a composition from drummer and experimental musician Andrea Belfi, who has released five solo albums and collaborated with artists including Jóhann Jóhannsson and Nils Frahm. His contribution to \u003cem\u003eAlveare\u003c\/em\u003e is also available as a standalone release on Bandcamp, extending the book's pairing of image and sound beyond the printed page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlveare\u003c\/em\u003e was published as part of the IIKKI series, which sets photography and music into dialogue across each title. This edition is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies and will not be reprinted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is a hardcover volume measuring 30 x 22 cm, with 112 pages and 88 photographs, printed on Munken Print White 150g\/m² paper with embossed logo and circle detailing on the cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrders are packed carefully and dispatched from Germany with tracked shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IIKKI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51364343415130,"sku":"9782955795316","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/alveare-matthias-heiderich-andrea-belfi-cover-detail-2.jpg?v=1793534433"},{"product_id":"kurayami-masao-yamamoto","title":"Kurayami – Masao Yamamoto","description":"\u003ch2\u003eKurayami — Light, Darkness, and the Space Between\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKurayami\u003c\/em\u003e (暗闇, \"darkness\") is a photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/masao-yamamoto\" title=\"Browse all Masao Yamamoto titles available in the shop\"\u003eMasao Yamamoto\u003c\/a\u003e and musician Akira Uchida, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/iikki\" title=\"Browse all IIKKI limited edition publications at Lokator100\"\u003eIIKKI\u003c\/a\u003e as a limited edition of 2000 copies, each hand numbered and hand stamped. It is the first and only edition — no reprint is planned. The book follows the dialogue Yamamoto and Uchida began with \u003cem\u003eSasanami\u003c\/em\u003e in September 2020, extending that collaboration into new conceptual territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is structured in two chapters — \u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e — each moving through Yamamoto's characteristic register: small-scale, hand-altered gelatin silver prints that hold light and shadow with equal attention. Across 56 photographs, the images circle themes of transience, nature, intimacy, and presence without resolving them. Darkness here is not absence but atmosphere — a condition in which things become perceptible rather than disappear. Six metallic and silver pages punctuate the sequence, and the hardcover carries an embossed logo, slot, and circle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUchida's music is not incidental to the work. It functions as a coequal voice, composed in direct relation to the images and intended to be heard alongside them. For \u003cem\u003eKurayami\u003c\/em\u003e, Uchida collaborated with Tono Tamami on Sho and Kosaka Osho on Sutra — contributions that deepen the sonic dimension of the book. Each copy includes a \u003cstrong\u003edownload code for the music\u003c\/strong\u003e by Akira Uchida, making that dimension directly accessible to every reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKurayami\u003c\/em\u003e is part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100. Another Yamamoto title, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nusa-masao-yamamoto\" title=\"View Nusa, another Masao Yamamoto title available in the shop\"\u003eNusa - Masao Yamamoto\u003c\/a\u003e, is also available in the shop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IIKKI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369722282330,"sku":"9782958615703","price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/kurayami-masao-yamamoto-akira-uchida-cover.jpg?v=1788626925"},{"product_id":"lowlands-ester-vonplon","title":"Lowlands – Ester Vonplon","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA dialogue between image and sound\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLowlands\u003c\/em\u003e joins the analog photography of Ester Vonplon with an ambient composition by Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fischer. The book, published by IIKKI as part of a cross-media series, treats image and music not as separate layers but as a single, shared space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Spitsbergen expedition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2016, Vonplon sailed the ice-choked waters of Spitsbergen aboard a three-masted vessel, documenting the collapsing glaciers and receding ice of the Arctic Ocean. Her weather-worn analog negatives record this landscape with a tactility that resists easy resolution, holding both the physical texture of the film and the instability of the terrain it describes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeupree and Fischer composed their score in response to these visual impressions: a slowly unfolding ambient work built from tape manipulation and natural sound, marked by stillness and restraint rather than melodic incident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe three contributors\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEster Vonplon (b. 1980) lives and works in Castrisch, Switzerland. She studied photography in Berlin and completed her Master of Arts at ZHdK Zurich in 2013. Taylor Deupree (b. 1971) is a Brooklyn-based electronic musician and founder of the 12k label, known for recordings that attend closely to the aesthetics of error and the imperfect textures of natural sound. Marcus Fischer (b. 1977) is a Portland-based musician and interdisciplinary artist whose work centers on memory, geography, and the manipulation of physical audio recording mediums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFormat and condition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis hardcover edition measures 30 by 22 centimetres across 112 pages and 88 photographs, printed on Munken Print White paper at 150g\/m², with logo, slot, and anthracite circle embossing. It is one of 500 hand-numbered copies, with a corresponding vinyl edition also limited to 500. The accompanying music is available separately on Bandcamp.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IIKKI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369940975962,"sku":"9782955795323","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/lowlands-ester-vonplon-taylor-deupree-marcus-fischer-cover-detail-2.jpg?v=1793534353"},{"product_id":"lejos-de-la-tierra-irene-zottola","title":"Lejos De La Tierra – Irene Zottola","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAnalog Photography and Ambient Sound in Dialogue\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLejos De La Tierra\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eLangt Fra Jorden\u003c\/em\u003e) is the second book by Spanish photographer \u003cstrong\u003eIrene Zottola\u003c\/strong\u003e, produced in collaboration with Copenhagen-based musician and collage artist \u003cstrong\u003eøjeRum\u003c\/strong\u003e (Paw Grabowski). Initiated by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/iikki\"\u003eIIKKI\u003c\/a\u003e and developed between June and November 2024, the work is a sustained exchange between two distinct practices: Zottola's analog photography and øjeRum's ambient sound composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty-two photographs compose the book's visual sequence. Shot on analog film, they carry the grain and softness of a medium that resists precision — images of body, landscape, and memory that drift between documentary observation and collage. The sequence does not illustrate; it accumulates, building a dreamlike register in which fragments of the physical world become something less fixed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe accompanying musical dialogue by øjeRum is available via Bandcamp. The book and the sound exist as parallel works: the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/irene-zottola-ojerum-lejos-de-la-tierra-langt-fra-jorden-book-vinyl\"\u003eLejos De La Tierra book + vinyl bundle\u003c\/a\u003e is also available for those who want both objects together. The sound release alone — \u003ca href=\"\/products\/langt-fra-jorden-ojerum\"\u003eLangt Fra Jorden by øjeRum\u003c\/a\u003e — is available separately.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eEdition\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eLimited to 500 copies, each hand-numbered and hand-stamped. First and only edition; no reprint is planned. Hardcover, 17 × 23 cm, 80 pages. The 42 photographs are printed on Munken Print Cream 115 g\/m². The covers carry an embossed logo, slot, and circle, with gold hot stamping on both front and back. Visible seam binding. Weight: 0.35 kg. ISBN: 978-2-9586157-5-8.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse the full \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ephotobook catalogue\u003c\/a\u003e for related titles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IIKKI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51380960461146,"sku":"9782958615758","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/lejos-de-la-tierra-irene-zottola-cover.jpg?v=1788981005"},{"product_id":"flowers-drink-the-river-pia-paulina-guilmoth","title":"Flowers Drink the River – Pia-Paulina Guilmoth","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\" title=\"View all Pia-Paulina Guilmoth titles at Lokator100\"\u003ePia-Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/stanley-barker\" title=\"Browse all Stanley\/Barker titles at Lokator100\"\u003eSTANLEY\/BARKER\u003c\/a\u003e. Shot on a large format camera using analogue methods, the project documents forests, rivers, and fields in rural Maine — treating landscape not as backdrop but as active participant in the image-making process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work spans the first two years of Guilmoth's gender transition. It records a small working-class community with attention to the textures of visibility, risk, and proximity. Nocturnal scenes predominate: flash-lit, often hazy, marked by optical aberrations that register duration and the particular quality of night. Moths, wet ground, spider silk, and improvised rituals appear alongside documentary moments and staged gestures. The book is direct about the body and sexuality, and includes explicit scenes. It describes its subject as it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA central aspect of Guilmoth's process is duration. Small sculptures are assembled from natural materials, then left for the environment to alter — the final image shaped as much by weather, insects, and chance as by the photographer's intent. This patience is structural to the work, not incidental to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume is 3\/4 + Swiss bound, 30 × 24 cm, and includes a tipped-in facsimile 4×5\" contact print along with a fabric tip-on nameplate. It sits within Lokator100's \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our photography and photobook catalogue\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue as a considered example of the artist photobook form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMore by this artist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/fishworm-pia-paulina-guilmoth-jesse-bull-saffire\" title=\"Fishworm – another publication featuring Pia-Paulina Guilmoth\"\u003eFishworm\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/sleep-creek-dylan-hausthor-pia-paulina-guilmoth\" title=\"Sleep Creek – a publication featuring Pia-Paulina Guilmoth\"\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/a\u003e are two further publications featuring Pia-Paulina Guilmoth available at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanley\/Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51594719396186,"sku":"9781913288761","price":120.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/pink-cover-spiderweb-motif.jpg?v=1785785490"},{"product_id":"elv-massimo-leardini","title":"ELV - Massimo Leardini","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"604\"\u003eELV\u003c\/em\u003e (Norwegian for “river”) by Italian-born, Norway-based photographer Massimo Leardini is a meditative 104-page hardcover photobook showcasing his long-term collaborative work with a select group of models. 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=1785768670"},{"product_id":"eikoh-hosoe-book-english-edition-mack","title":"Eikoh Hosoe – English Edition, edited by Yasufumi Nakamori","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/eikoh-hosoe\" title=\"Browse all Eikoh Hosoe titles at Lokator100\"\u003eEikoh Hosoe\u003c\/a\u003e — English Edition Monograph (MACK Books, 2021)\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 400-page monograph on \u003cstrong\u003eEikoh Hosoe\u003c\/strong\u003e, edited by \u003cstrong\u003eYasufumi Nakamori\u003c\/strong\u003e and published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMACK Books\u003c\/a\u003e in September 2021, is the most extensive English-language survey of Hosoe's photographic practice assembled to date. Produced as an embossed hardback at 25 × 32.5 cm, the volume is structured for sustained reading rather than selective reference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNakamori's editorial approach extends well beyond Hosoe's canonical series. The book addresses collaborative work with figures from literature, performance, and visual culture — among them Yukio Mishima, Yayoi Kusama, and Shuzo Takiguchi. This scope distinguishes the volume from a conventional retrospective: rather than isolating Hosoe's output, it situates his photography within the broader intellectual and cultural conditions of postwar Japan. Critical texts, both newly commissioned and reprinted, support this contextual framing throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHosoe's significance in the history of postwar Japanese photography is not limited to his own images. He co-founded Vivo and later helped establish the Photography Workshop, two of the institutional structures through which a generation of photographers — including Daido Moriyama — developed their practice. Nakamori's editorial framing reflects this, treating the book as a document of a field as much as a record of an individual career. The result is a volume that functions as both monograph and historical account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEikoh Hosoe\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEikoh Hosoe, born in 1933 in Yamagata, is one of the central figures in the history of Japanese photography. Since the mid-1950s, he has worked across image-making, curating, teaching, and institutional development. His practice helped move photography in Japan away from older documentary models and toward a more complex intersection of art, literature, performance, and film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is held as part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse photography books and photobooks at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100, alongside a curated selection of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\" title=\"Browse Japanese photobooks available at Lokator100\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e. A related title, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/a-world-of-eikoh-hosoe-spherical-dualism-of-photograph\" title=\"View A World of Eikoh Hosoe – a related title at Lokator100\"\u003eA World of Eikoh Hosoe: Spherical Dualism of Photograph\u003c\/a\u003e, is also available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51651662872922,"sku":"9781913620240","price":57.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/eikoh-hosoe-english-edition-edited-by-yasufumi-nakamori-red-hardback-cover-upper-spine-corner-damage.jpg?v=1793449122"},{"product_id":"no-fences-by-mark-mclennan","title":"No Fences - Mark McLennan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"314\"\u003eNo Fences\u003c\/em\u003e by Mark McLennan is a lyrical and elegiac photobook exploring the fading myths and enduring spirit of the American West. Shot between 2020 and 2023 across Southern Alberta and West Texas, McLennan’s photographs move beyond highways into shadowy forests, wide plains, and the margins of rural communities. 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=1785784188"},{"product_id":"huts-temples-castles-ursula-schulz-dornburg","title":"Huts, Temples, Castles – Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (Signed Edition)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHuts, Temples, Castles\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the years following the Second World War, the City of Amsterdam founded Jongensland Oost as a response to children occupying streets and parks with nowhere structured to play. Reachable only by rowboat, the site grew into a settlement built by its young inhabitants from salvaged materials — huts, towers, shelters, and compounds constructed, used, and dismantled without adult supervision. Children cooked, raised animals, lit fires, and traded among themselves, relying on shared resourcefulness rather than institutional planning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1969, after moving to Düsseldorf with her two children, the architectural photographer \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/ursula-schulz-dornburg\"\u003eUrsula Schulz-Dornburg\u003c\/a\u003e encountered Jongensland on the other side of the border from Germany's more strictly regulated playgrounds. She photographed the improvised structures extensively as they were built, inhabited, demolished, and reshaped, registering an intuitive architectural intelligence rather than treating the scenes as incidental or picturesque.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting series occupies a position between photobook, architectural record, and artist publication. It documents a genre of vernacular construction with its own conventions, pointing to the role of imagination in defining a building's identity and purpose before institutions impose their own logic. An extended essay by architectural historian Tom Wilkinson accompanies the images, reflecting on the architectural themes Jongensland continues to raise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\"\u003eMACK Books\u003c\/a\u003e in September 2022 as an embossed hardcover of 80 pages, the book is largely unseen material from Schulz-Dornburg's archive, presented in English.\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 a slip signed by the artist, bound into the inside back cover, with the label wording \"Signed by the artist, July 2022, Düsseldorf.\" The underlying book is the standard 2022 MACK edition; the signed slip is the distinguishing element of this copy, discreet but verifiable. For readers of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotography Books \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e interested in documentary approaches to architecture and the built environment, the volume sits alongside related material in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/land-ruins-isolation\"\u003eLand, Ruins \u0026amp; Isolation\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrsula Schulz-Dornburg (born 1938, Berlin) works in Düsseldorf and is associated with the documentary, typological approach of the Düsseldorf School. Her photography follows a minimalist, conceptual method, most often applied to historical and vernacular architecture across Europe, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.\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\/huts-temples-castles-ursula-schulz-dornburg-signed-edition-cover-view.jpg?v=1792069312"},{"product_id":"ravens-masahisa-fukase","title":"Ravens – Masahisa Fukase","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRavens by Masahisa Fukase — MACK 2017 Bilingual Facsimile of Karasu\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e is the 2017 \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMack Books\u003c\/a\u003e facsimile of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Browse all Masahisa Fukase titles at Lokator100\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase\u003c\/a\u003e's 1986 photobook \u003cem\u003eKarasu\u003c\/em\u003e — a sequence in which the raven functions not as ornithological subject but as a vehicle for grief, solitude, and self-projection. Produced as a bilingual edition in an embossed linen hardback housed in a silkscreened slipcase, this reprint returns the work to its original structure while adding a new essay by Tomo Kosuga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs in \u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e were made in the years following Fukase's divorce from Yoko Wanibe, and are closely associated with a train journey back toward his home prefecture of Hokkaido. The sequence accumulates black wings, coastal light, and blurred distance into something that operates less as documentation than as a sustained internal state. The raven becomes a figure onto which isolation and loss are gradually projected — a formal strategy as much as a biographical one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted across 80 tritone plates and 13 colour plates within 148 pages, the book's visual logic depends on tonal compression and the slow accumulation of a single motif. The tritone printing in this MACK edition sustains the tonal range that makes the sequence cohere. Tomo Kosuga's essay, included in both Japanese and English, situates the work within Fukase's broader biography and the conditions under which \u003cem\u003eKarasu\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e holds a significant position in the history of the photobook medium — not because of its subject matter alone, but because of the precision with which Fukase bound a period of personal dissolution to a photographic form. The work is available in the Lokator100 \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue as a central reference point in post-war Japanese photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Publisher\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition was produced by MACK Books, a London-based publisher known for its close attention to photobook production and its work with both historical and contemporary photographers. The 2017 facsimile of \u003cem\u003eKarasu\u003c\/em\u003e was produced with care for the original's physical format — square, substantial, and designed to be read as a sequence. Further titles from the publisher are available in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMack Books\u003c\/a\u003e collection at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51700176650586,"sku":"9781910164839","price":85.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/ravens-masahisa-fukase-slipcase-english-title.jpg?v=1788799903"},{"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\"\u003eMark Ruwedel\u003c\/a\u003e documenting abandoned houses in desert regions east of Los Angeles. Published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\"\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\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e at Lokator100, or explore more of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/land-ruins-isolation\"\u003eLand, Ruins \u0026amp; Isolation\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach copy is documented accurately before dispatch. Orders are packed with care and sent by tracked post from Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51708521578842,"sku":"9781910164464","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/message-from-the-exterior-mark-ruwedel-red-cover.jpg?v=1792069372"},{"product_id":"megalith-still-mimi-plumb","title":"Megalith-Still - Mimi Plumb","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMegalith-Still – Mimi Plumb\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMegalith-Still\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mimi-plumb\" title=\"View all Mimi Plumb photobooks and publications at Lokator100\"\u003eMimi Plumb\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 2023. 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. ISBN: 9781913288563.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition and Dispatch\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is new, first edition, first impression. Orders are dispatched from Germany the next business day, with tracked shipping and careful packaging. The full \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue is available to browse at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanley\/Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51716182376794,"sku":"9781913288563","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/megalith-still-cover.jpg?v=1789374015"},{"product_id":"symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-takashi-homma","title":"Symphony - mushrooms from the forest (Softcover) - Takashi Homma","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRadioactive mushrooms, white backgrounds, and the forest as contaminated archive\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest\u003c\/em\u003e is a 2019 softcover photobook by Takashi Homma, published by Case Publishing. The project takes radioactive mushrooms as its subject — gathered across four geographies — and photographs them against a white background, isolating each specimen with a precision closer to taxonomy than to landscape photography. Interspersed forest views hold the environmental context without resolving it into narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe structural reference point is Ed Ruscha's typological method: repetition as a form of inquiry rather than illustration. Homma photographs mushrooms collected in Scandinavia, Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Stony Point — each location carrying its own history of nuclear contamination or proximity to it. The white-background images recur throughout the sequence with the regularity of specimens in a field guide, while the forest inserts introduce scale, weather, and geography without explaining the contamination they imply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a transnational document that moves between foraging culture, radiation, and ecological memory without collapsing any of them into the others. The book remains visually flat and procedural even as the subject matter accumulates weight across its 296 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe softcover edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 328 × 258 × 25 mm, the softcover edition is a large-format object. The sequence of 139 images across 296 pages gives the book a measured, expansive rhythm — the white-background photographs return at intervals that feel calibrated rather than arbitrary. Readers comparing formats may also wish to consult \u003ca href=\"\/products\/symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-hardcover-takashi-homma\" title=\"View the hardcover edition of Symphony - mushrooms from the forest by Takashi Homma\"\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest (Hardcover)\u003c\/a\u003e. 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The photographs were not made for publication. They were found later, as prints, stored in a cabinet box bearing the title that now names this book. The 2017 publication by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/case-publishing\" title=\"Browse all Case Publishing titles at Lokator100\"\u003eCase Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e preserves that sense of latency — an object recovered rather than constructed after the fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe physical form reinforces this. The book is postcard-sized, 180 × 133 mm, and arrives inside a replica of a Fuji photographic paper box. That presentation is not decorative. It keeps the publication close to the conditions of the original find: something stored, handled, and returned to. The format makes the encounter with the images feel deliberate and contained rather than monumental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photographs themselves show women, city life, and the texture of everyday experience — subjects that would remain central to Araki's practice for decades. What distinguishes these images is the absence of retrospective editing. They hold the roughness of early experimentation, and that quality is part of what the book offers. First shown publicly at Taka Ishii Gallery in 2011, the work sits at an unusual position in Araki's output: neither juvenilia nor a fully formed statement, but a clear point of origin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers interested in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\" title=\"Browse Japanese photobooks available at Lokator100\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e, photo diaries, or the early formation of a sustained practice, \u003cem\u003eTheater of Love\u003c\/em\u003e belongs within the broader field of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the photography and photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e that Lokator100 carries — work where the physical object and the photographic content are inseparable from each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Case Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52004250157402,"sku":"9784908526121","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/theater-of-love-nobuyoshi-araki-front-cover.jpg?v=1785783388"},{"product_id":"high-fashion-pawel-jaszczuk","title":"High Fashion – Pawel Jaszczuk","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eHigh Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e — Pawel Jaszczuk's Tokyo Salaryman Photobook\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 2008 and 2010, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pawel-jaszczuk\" title=\"Browse all titles by Pawel Jaszczuk at Lokator100\"\u003ePawel Jaszczuk\u003c\/a\u003e rode through Tokyo on his bicycle after midnight, returning home between 1 am and 4 am. Along the way he photographed salarymen — suited office workers — collapsed in public spaces: slumped on staircases, stretched across benches, folded against walls. The men are unconscious, still dressed for work, their postures accidental and total.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series takes its title from a formal coincidence. The collapsed figures, photographed with a flat, frontal precision, inadvertently recall the staged poses of fashion editorials. Corporate dress codes — maintained with apparent care throughout the working day — meet complete physical surrender. The humor is structural: the suits remain intact; the men do not. Jaszczuk has been explicit that the work is not a statement against drinking. His original interest was the contrast between men in good suits and dirty streets. Over time, his reading of the material shifted. \u003cem\u003eHigh Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e is now framed as a humorous, apocalyptic document of overwork and chronic stress in Japanese urban society — a condition rendered visible only when the body finally gives out in public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series began as \u003cem\u003eSalaryman\u003c\/em\u003e, a black-and-white zine published with Morel Books in 2009, limited to 150 copies, which sold out immediately. This third edition, produced by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore the full Zen Foto Gallery catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e in 2024, reframes the work in a large-format magazine-style photobook — a format that directly echoes the glossy visual language the title invokes. The shift from zine to photobook does not dissolve the original logic; it extends it. The scale and finish of the object become part of the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross 120 pages and 86 photographs, the cumulative effect moves away from satire toward document. Individual images read as absurd; the sequence reads as evidence. 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Snowfields, volcanic rock, and low cloud are treated as matter — present, unembellished, and without hierarchy. The images hold a visual register that is matter-of-fact rather than atmospheric: Hokkaido as terrain, not as spectacle. Across 56 black-and-white photographs, the Daisetsuzan range is rendered with the kind of attention that comes from long familiarity rather than encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's written layer introduces a dimension of naming. The Ainu name \u003cstrong\u003eOptateske\u003c\/strong\u003e appears alongside the renaming tied to Meiji-era survey and administrative settlement. The text does not interpret. It states. That restraint is precise: the reader is left to register how a name shapes the reading of land without the book insisting on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe physical object is hardcover, 260 × 367 mm — a scale that suits the subject. 104 pages carry 56 images. Text is bilingual: English and Japanese. ISBN 978-4-908526-53-4.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNakanishi (b. 1971, Osaka) has photographed Hokkaido since 1989. He relocated to Biei, in central Hokkaido, in 2012. \u003cem\u003eNew Land\u003c\/em\u003e is the product of that sustained, decades-long observation — landscape treated as lived territory rather than destination. Further titles are available in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/toshiki-nakanishi\" title=\"Browse all titles by Toshiki Nakanishi at Lokator100\"\u003eToshiki Nakanishi\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis title is part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Case Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52004937662810,"sku":"9784908526534","price":81.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/new-land-pre-hokkaido-landscapes-toshiki-nakanishi-cover-2.jpg?v=1788973499"},{"product_id":"asakusa-ronin-de-goede","title":"Asakusa – Ronin de Goede","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAsakusa — Black-and-White Photobook on Tokyo Tattoo Culture\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAsakusa\u003c\/strong\u003e is a sustained black-and-white documentary project by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/ronin-de-goede\" title=\"Browse all titles by Ronin de Goede at Lokator100\"\u003eRonin de Goede\u003c\/a\u003e, built from long-term access to the studio of tattoo master Horikazu and the surrounding social environment in Tokyo's Asakusa district. The work moves between bodies, interiors, streets, and gatherings — staying close to skin, shadow, and surface without converting its subject into spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross its sequence, the book shifts between documentary directness and rougher, blurred passages that recall the Provoke-era are-bure-boke sensibility. The result is a sustained inquiry into proximity and permission: who is allowed to look, under what conditions, and what is withheld. De Goede records the studio environment as a system of gestures, waiting, and ritual repetition — the irezumi tradition observed from within rather than from a distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all Zen Foto Gallery publications at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e in Tokyo, \u003cem\u003eAsakusa\u003c\/em\u003e is part of a broader catalogue of analogue photobooks attentive to Japanese visual and subcultural life. It sits within the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photography and photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52009353740634,"sku":"9784910244044","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/asakusa-ronin-de-goede-front-cover.jpg?v=1785779762"},{"product_id":"eros-lost-seiji-kurata","title":"Eros Lost – Seiji Kurata","description":"\u003ch2\u003eEros Lost — Seiji Kurata\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEros Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is a posthumous photobook published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all Zen Foto Gallery publications available in the shop\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e in 2020, assembled in close collaboration with the artist in the year before his death in February 2020. The book draws on Kurata's nude photography from the 1980s, presenting 79 images across 208 pages — many of them previously unpublished, reproduced from original negatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKurata's method in this body of work is precise and deliberate. Subjects are placed within interior environments — domestic rooms, furniture, machinery — and photographed under elaborate, constructed lighting. Poses are scripted rather than spontaneous, transforming the encounter between body and setting into something closer to visual theater. As editor Amanda Ling-Ning Lo writes in the afterword: \"Over a 40-year career, Kurata continued his dialogue with the camera. Can a certain moment become an eternity? Will the story of all existence be affirmed and accepted under the same sky?\" The photographs return repeatedly to questions of desire, memory, and the durability of the photographic moment itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKurata began publishing selections of this nude work in the magazines \u003cem\u003eShashin Jidai\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eShashin Sekai\u003c\/em\u003e between 1985 and 1989, collecting them in the photobook \u003cem\u003eQuest for Eros\u003c\/em\u003e in 1999–2000. \u003cem\u003eEros Lost\u003c\/em\u003e revisits that decade of work through images that did not find their way into earlier publications, drawn from Kurata's original negatives. Within \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all Zen Foto Gallery publications available in the shop\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e's publishing programme — which has consistently focused on Japanese photographers working outside mainstream commercial frameworks — the book represents a considered editorial act of recovery and recontextualization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/seiji-kurata\" title=\"Browse all Seiji Kurata titles in the catalogue\"\u003eSeiji Kurata\u003c\/a\u003e (1945–2020) was born in Tokyo and graduated from the Workshop School of Photography in 1976, having studied at Tokyo University of the Arts under Shomei Tomatsu and others. His debut book \u003ca href=\"\/products\/flash-up-2013-new-edition-seiji-kurata\" title=\"View Flash Up by Seiji Kurata — Kimura Ihei Award-winning debut photobook\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlash Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (1980) received the Kimura Ihei Award for its documentation of Tokyo's nightlife — motorcycle gangs, yakuza, cabarets — and established his reputation within Japanese photography. Subsequent publications — \u003cem\u003ePhoto Cabaret\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGreat Asia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e'80s Family\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJapan\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eQuest for Eros\u003c\/em\u003e — extended that work across four decades. His photographs have been shown internationally, including at Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Barbican Art Gallery in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis title is part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52016761700698,"sku":"9784905453918","price":67.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/eros-lost-seiji-kurata-front-cover.jpg?v=1785786939"},{"product_id":"ash-new-edition-muge","title":"Ash (New Edition) — Muge","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAsh (New Edition) — Muge\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAsh (New Edition)\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by Chinese photographer Muge, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e and Muge Gallery in September 2019. It is a revised edition of the original 2013 publication and presents Muge's sustained engagement with nature, time, and material form through three sequential sections: \u003cem\u003eStill Life\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShan Shui\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eScenery\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eStructure and Concept\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book's organisation is both conceptual and physical. The three sections are stacked on top of each other, forming a staircase-like design — a structure that mirrors the layered, accumulative logic of Muge's images. Each photograph is printed in black and gray and finished with glossy varnish, matte varnish, or special color varnish, selected according to the condition of each individual subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work is grounded in Lao Tze's Theory of Nature. Muge approaches his subjects not as an observer from outside but as someone who belongs to the environment, allowing objects, landscapes, and places the space to weather, grow, decay, and exist on their own terms. Still life objects, mountain forms, water, and stone recur across the three sections as anchors of an extended meditation on cycles of change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Muge's own words:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"When I used the large format camera to re-understand my hometown as it is now, I've discovered that all things in the real world derive from our internal desire: the Karma cycle of yearning for nature, destroying nature, and mending nature (...) These images are taken from the understandings gleaned from my daily life, conveying the traces of time and history in nature, and a person's thoughts of the future when faced with reality.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePublication History\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first edition of \u003cem\u003eAsh\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Zen Foto Gallery in 2013. This new edition, released in September 2019, marks a reissue of that work. Both editions were produced in Japan under the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e imprint. The 2019 edition coincided with a period of expanded international exhibition activity for Muge, including his solo presentation at Format Photo Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52017004216666,"sku":"9784905453871","price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/ash-new-edition-muge-cover-front.jpg?v=1792071802"},{"product_id":"berg-werk-sincei-yamamoto","title":"Berg Werk - Sincei Yamamoto","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Berg Werk” by Sincei Yamamoto is a striking photobook about the traces of the vanished coal industry in Akabira, Hokkaidō. 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=1785769375"},{"product_id":"1980s-remnants-daido-moriyama","title":"1980s Remnants — Daido Moriyama","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e1980s Remnants\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/daido-moriyama\"\u003eDaido Moriyama\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1980s Remnants\u003c\/em\u003e is a 2022 hardcover photobook published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e, drawn from a box of long-unpublished 1980s photographs that Daido Moriyama handed to Michitaka Ota in 1987. Some images from that box appeared elsewhere in the years that followed, but the larger portion remained set aside until this publication gave them form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs originate from a body of work held back rather than discarded. That interval between making and publication gives the book a quality of deferred arrival — the images read less as a fresh argument than as a residue returning to the surface. Visually, the sequence moves through streets, architectural surfaces, and the raw textures of urban space long associated with Moriyama's practice. What distinguishes this volume is the presence of plant and floral photographs within that otherwise familiar urban register — a quiet, unexpected counterpoint rather than a departure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's structure is compact and rhythmic, working through accumulation rather than a retrospective statement. 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Working in high-contrast black-and-white, Shinoda produces prints that are unusually dark, rendering tropical plants as something between botanical specimen and psychological pressure — organic forms made strange by their controlled environment, at once exotic and almost unnatural.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book follows \u003cem\u003eStation\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), in which Shinoda applied the same close-reading method to Tokyo's train stations — transitional, functional spaces carrying a persistent quality of suspension. \u003cem\u003eIm Treibhaus\u003c\/em\u003e extends that discipline to a subject that resists easy classification: not quite nature, not quite architecture, but a managed environment in which the organic is made to perform. 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The 32 black-and-white photographs, created in collaboration with Chris Shaw and Tokyo Rumando, explore a visual dialogue between subject and photographer. Set in Hong Kong, the work addresses the tension between intimacy, performance, and nude portraiture. 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He later completed a master's degree in photography at the Chinese Academy of Art between 2008 and 2010. \u003cem\u003eThe Ancient Towers\u003c\/em\u003e represents the central long-term work of his engagement with Buddhist architecture and cultural heritage. Further titles are listed in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zhang-yu-ming\"\u003eZhang Yu-Ming\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e, 2010, in an edition of 500 copies. Softcover, 182 × 257 mm, 48 pages, 40 black-and-white images. 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The book was conceived following an encounter described by the photographer: on a farm during her travels, she met a pregnant cow she hoped to observe through calving. The cow was later found dead. This event opens a sequence that extends across 56 pages and 43 black-and-white photographs, moving through animals, land, and the rhythms of everyday life in an unnamed rural Japanese town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNakama's images alternate between intimate close-up and stark, wide composition. Her black-and-white printing favours contrast over gradation, so that light appears to emerge from darkness rather than illuminate it evenly. The book does not comment on its subject matter; it records it, holding scenes of birth, death, and ordinary rural labour within the same visual register.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an object, \u003cem\u003eWandering Dog\u003c\/em\u003e measures 210 × 252 mm and is bound as a thread-sewn hardcover with hollow-back construction, printed and bound in Japan by SunM Color Co., Ltd. The book was designed by Katsuya Kato, edited and published under Shuhei Motoyama, with English translation by Shinichiro Ishii. Text appears in parallel Japanese and English. The edition is limited to 300 copies; it is not numbered per available production data, and no ISBN has been confirmed for this title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Photographer\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mai-nakama\"\u003eMai Nakama\u003c\/a\u003e (b. 1987, Yamaguchi; lives and works in Tokyo) is a Japanese photographer whose practice centres on memory, everyday life, and the boundaries between presence and absence. Her work has been shown at Nikon Salon in Tokyo, Osaka, and Shinjuku, at Book Marute, Gallery Kaido, and at Das Japanische Haus in Germany. Her photographs are held in the collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, and in 2021 she received the 1Wall Kohara Encouragement Award. \u003cem\u003eWandering Dog\u003c\/em\u003e continues the black-and-white, narrative-rooted approach that runs through her broader body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders exploring Japanese photobook publishing more widely can browse our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection, or the wider \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotography Books\u003c\/a\u003e selection 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-cover.jpg?v=1789901256"},{"product_id":"grey-cards-richard-kern","title":"Grey Cards – Richard Kern","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGrey Cards – Richard Kern\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrey Cards\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/richard-kern\" title=\"Browse all Richard Kern titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eRichard Kern\u003c\/a\u003e is a 252-page first-edition photobook published in a limited run of 500 copies by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/friend-editions\" title=\"Explore all Friend Editions publications in the shop\"\u003eFriend Editions\u003c\/a\u003e. The book gathers Kern's grey card photographs — images presented straight from camera, unedited and raw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe grey card, a neutral reference tool used in photography to calibrate exposure and colour, functions here as both subject and formal device. Kern turns the utilitarian object into a vehicle for examining what photography records and what it withholds. The 252 pages move between candid and posed images without hierarchy, sustaining a tension that resists easy resolution. The question of truth and objectivity in photography runs through the work not as argument but as persistent condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe physical object reflects the same economy. Softcover, with a Colorplan grey stock cover and a tipped-in grey card, the book's material choices are consistent with its content — restrained, deliberate, without embellishment. It sits within the broader context of contemporary \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e that treat the printed form as an extension of the photographic work rather than its container.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friend Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52100789305690,"sku":"BOOK-KERN-GREYCARDS-FRIEND-2025","price":75.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/grey-cards-richard-kern-front-cover.jpg?v=1785789467"},{"product_id":"hashima-taiji-matsue","title":"Hashima - Taiji Matsue","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHashima — Photographs of Gunkanjima by Taiji Matsue\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHashima\u003c\/strong\u003e is a \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e title documenting the abandoned island of Hashima, commonly known as Gunkanjima, off the coast of Nagasaki. The photographs were made by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/taiji-matsue\"\u003eTaiji Matsue\u003c\/a\u003e in 1983, when the island had been closed for nearly a decade following the end of coal extraction. This 2017 edition presents the 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. When Matsue visited in 1983, the built fabric remained largely intact — corridors, stairwells, façades, and interiors held in a state of structural completeness without occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatsue's approach to the site is systematic rather than expressive. The photographs attend to surfaces — concrete panels, window grids, corridor sequences, the geometry of repeated structural elements — without framing the island as a ruin in any romantic sense. The work is observational and measured, recorded with the same analytical attention Matsue applies across his broader practice of landscape and architectural documentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe digital remastering from original negatives for this \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/getsuyosha\"\u003eGetsuyosha\u003c\/a\u003e edition recovers tonal detail and structural clarity from four-decade-old source material. The book comprises 168 pages with text in Japanese and English, in softcover format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Taiji Matsue\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/taiji-matsue\"\u003eTaiji Matsue\u003c\/a\u003e was born in Tokyo in 1963. His photographic practice is characterised by a systematic, near-cartographic attention to landscape and the built environment — places treated as legible systems to be mapped, measured, and observed with controlled distance rather than interpreted through subjective response. His thematic focus spans natural terrain, urban infrastructure, and architectural fabric, approached with consistent methodological rigour across projects. 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With 64 pages of striking photographs, this softcover book offers an intimate glimpse into contemporary Japanese culture and the personal stories of its subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kawako Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52118056599898,"sku":"9781916427624","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/tokyo-girls-emily-ashcroft-cover-front.jpg?v=1788854083"},{"product_id":"rites-ceremonies-of-south-east-asia-vincent-peal","title":"Rites \u0026 Ceremonies of South East Asia - Vincent Peal","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRites \u0026amp; Ceremonies of South East Asia — Vincent Peal\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRites \u0026amp; Ceremonies of South East Asia\u003c\/em\u003e is a 200-page hardcover photobook by Belgian photographer \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/vincent-peal\" title=\"Browse all Vincent Peal titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eVincent Peal\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/timeless-edition\" title=\"Explore the full Timeless Edition catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTimeless Edition\u003c\/a\u003e in May 2025 as part of the Hunting Asia series. The book is a bilingual edition in English and French, formatted at 28 × 19.5 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe project follows a year-long photographic route from Indonesia through to Japan, continuing onward via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Rather than surveying geography, the work concentrates on a specific register of human experience: ritual, devotion, pain, and the structures through which belief is made public and bodily.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sequence moves through distinct ceremonial contexts — Tatung rituals in Borneo, Thaipusam in Malaysia, cremation rites on the banks of the Ganges — without treating them as isolated spectacles. Each subject is approached through direct observation, and the accumulation across the book builds a coherent visual argument about sacrifice, spiritual intensity, and collective ceremony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was developed within the Hunting Asia editorial framework, which focuses on documentary work produced across the Asian continent. It sits within the broader \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100 alongside other documentary and artist publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Publisher\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/timeless-edition\" title=\"Explore the full Timeless Edition catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTimeless Edition\u003c\/a\u003e is the publisher behind the Hunting Asia series, an editorial context dedicated to documentary photography produced across Asia. 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Published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMack Books\u003c\/a\u003e and winner of the MACK First Book Award 2018, it belongs to a tradition of long-form, structurally rigorous work where formal constraint generates meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe premise is deliberately narrow: the camera does not move, the subject does not change, and the years pass. What shifts is everything else. The table becomes a sun bed, a counter, a meeting point, a play structure, an exercise platform, a temporary refuge. Table tennis itself is nearly absent. The photographs accumulate into a dry, precise record of how public infrastructure is quietly colonised by everyday life — the gap between designated use and actual use being, in effect, the book's subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe humour is structural rather than performed. 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It gathers nine photographic series made between 2019 and 2025, produced in Katayama's home studio in Gunma during a period shaped by motherhood and a return to her home prefecture. The book's central concerns are body, memory, and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAbout the book\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nine series collected in \u003cem\u003eSynthesis\u003c\/em\u003e — among them \u003cem\u003eTree of Life\u003c\/em\u003e — were made over six years inside Katayama's home studio in Gunma. That studio operates throughout as both a space of sustained attention and a controlled stage: Katayama positions her body in relation to hand-sewn sculptures, threaded forms, paper collage, and constructed interiors. Each image is a deliberate composition in which identity is assembled through repetition, material, gesture, and spatial arrangement. These are not incidental self-portraits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication's particular quality lies in its refusal to stabilise a single image of the body. Katayama's practice treats the body as something staged, remade, measured, dressed, doubled, and re-examined — and across the full span of \u003cem\u003eSynthesis\u003c\/em\u003e, that logic becomes unusually legible. Opposites are held in tension rather than resolved; personal history is carried forward through transformation rather than closure. The result is materially dense and formally controlled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSynthesis\u003c\/em\u003e functions simultaneously as a photobook and an artist's book. The nine series are sequenced with the precision of a constructed publication, and the objects Katayama makes — sewn, assembled, worn — are as integral to the images as the body itself. 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These pauses return the collection to its source — the actual terrain, the actual forest, the conditions under which these things were found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the \u003cstrong\u003e2020 Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e. It was issued as a limited edition of 300 copies. The format — 334 × 265 mm, 296 pages — is designed for sustained attention, not quick handling. 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Working across portraiture, snapshot, and street photography, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/yoshio-mizoguchi\" title=\"Browse all Yoshio Mizoguchi titles at Lokator100\"\u003eYoshio Mizoguchi\u003c\/a\u003e stays close to the surface of daily life while allowing anxiety, erotic tension, drift, and urban fatigue to accumulate across the sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's particular strength is its refusal to turn Tokyo into spectacle. Rather than grand summary, Mizoguchi works through fragments: street encounters, women in transit, bodies under pressure, moments of waiting, the unstable rhythm of Shinjuku at night. That approach produces a tone that is neither nostalgic nor journalistic — suspended, instead, between immediacy and disorientation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs move between eroticism and ordinariness, and that tension is central to the work. The city appears restless, overstimulated, and emotionally porous. What accumulates across the 188 images is not a document of Tokyo but a visual atmosphere specific to the years after the collapse of certainty — a condition Mizoguchi renders without explanation or resolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 2022 by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Browse all Sokyusha publications at Lokator100\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e as a signed limited edition of 500 copies, this hardcover \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e title is a considered contribution to the literature of Japanese street photography and post-bubble urban imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52686499447130,"sku":"SOKY-MIZOGUCHI-TOKYO-BRINK-2022","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/tokyo-on-the-brink-of-sanity-cover-portrait.jpg?v=1785786048"},{"product_id":"jesus-pawel-jaszczuk","title":"¥€$U$ (JESUS) — Pawel Jaszczuk","description":"\u003ch2\u003eChristian Iconography as Consumer Commodity\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e¥€$U$ (JESUS)\u003c\/strong\u003e is a colour photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pawel-jaszczuk\" title=\"Browse all Pawel Jaszczuk titles available at Lokator100\"\u003ePawel Jaszczuk\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all Zen Foto Gallery publications at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e in 2019. Having returned to Poland after a decade living abroad, Jaszczuk found himself confronted with the saturation of Christian imagery across everyday consumer goods — sacred figures reproduced on underwear, chocolate, bathtub accessories, earrings, lamp-stands, tattoos, sex toys, and other mass-produced objects. The book documents and interrogates this condition: the grotesque convergence of holy symbols and commodity logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photographs record these objects directly, without staging or narrative arrangement. The approach is descriptive — surfaces, repetition, context. \u003cstrong\u003e¥€$U$ (JESUS)\u003c\/strong\u003e does not editorialize. It presents the material as found: devotional iconography absorbed into the same distribution channels as any other consumer product, circulating without friction or distinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe deadpan register is consistent throughout. There is no hierarchy among the objects depicted, no progression toward a conclusion. The book poses the question without answering it — is this religion's way of staying current? — and leaves the accumulation of evidence to speak for itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the publisher's statement: \u003cem\u003e\"Jesus and ¥€$U$. What is the difference here? The simple answer is: everything. Nowadays, Jesus is more a symbolic religious figure than he is a real person. From a cultural point of view he might be considered as a metaphorical figure — the personification of all virtues, the master figure. ¥ € $ U $ is an aberration of a religious order.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther titles by the same photographer are available in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pawel-jaszczuk\" title=\"Browse all Pawel Jaszczuk titles available at Lokator100\"\u003ePawel Jaszczuk\u003c\/a\u003e collection. Additional publications from \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all Zen Foto Gallery publications at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e are listed in the publisher's collection. The full \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue is also available at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52686851604826,"sku":"9784905453819","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/u-jesus-pawel-jaszczuk-cover-portrait.jpg?v=1783607422"},{"product_id":"tibet-shinya-arimoto","title":"Tibet – Shinya Arimoto","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTibet – Shinya Arimoto Photobook (Zen Foto Gallery)\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTibet\u003c\/strong\u003e is the expanded edition of Shinya Arimoto's out-of-print debut, \u003cem\u003ePortrait of Tibet\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), extended with previously unpublished photographs and published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore the full Zen Foto Gallery catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e as a limited hardcover of 1,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his twenties, Arimoto travelled through the wider Tibetan cultural region, working across parts of China, India, and Nepal. 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. Orders are dispatched from Germany with tracking and careful packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther titles in black-and-white documentary and Japanese photography are available in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52687028748634,"sku":"9784905453802","price":70.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/tibet-shinya-arimoto-cover-front.jpg?v=1788968482"},{"product_id":"yoshiichi-hara-walk-while-ye-have-the-light-sokyusha","title":"Walk while ye have the light - Yoshiichi Hara","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eWalk while ye have the light\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/yoshiichi-hara\"\u003eYoshiichi Hara\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e, 2011\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e on 21 November 2011 in an edition of 600 copies, \u003cem\u003eWalk while ye have the light\u003c\/em\u003e (光あるうちに) follows Yoshiichi Hara's 2008 photobook \u003cem\u003eDark of True\u003c\/em\u003e. Where that earlier volume examined the unstable territory between truth and fiction, this book continues the inquiry through a looser, more atmospheric sequencing of 63 black-and-white photographs across 68 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe images move through night streets, rain-soaked riverbanks, and wet pavements, where light catches on reflective surfaces and blurs the edges of figures and objects. People, places, and things are drawn together less by narrative than by shared atmosphere, so that the sequence reads as a set of related impressions rather than a documentary record of any single subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title is taken from John 12:35 — \"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you\" — a passage printed at the book's opening. Read critically rather than devotionally, it frames photography itself as a search conducted against the approach of darkness, consistent with the hesitant, twilight quality of the pictures that follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe hardcover volume, 260 × 232 mm, was designed by Koichi Hara and printed by Taiyo Printing Co. It sits within Hara's later, more introspective period of work, following earlier titles such as \u003cem\u003eMandala Zukan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStripper Zukan\u003c\/em\u003e. Original copies have become difficult to source and are frequently listed as out of stock by dealers. Within Lokator100's \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection, it stands as one of the more fully realized statements of Hara's later practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52687223521626,"sku":"SOKY-HARA-WALK-LIGHT-2011","price":79.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/walk-while-ye-have-the-light-yoshiichi-hara-cover-front.jpg?v=1791554738"},{"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":"sasuke-masahisa-fukase","title":"Sasuke — Masahisa Fukase","description":"\u003ch2\u003eCat photographs in four chapters\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSasuke\u003c\/strong\u003e collects \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Browse all Masahisa Fukase titles at Lokator100\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase\u003c\/a\u003e's long-running cat photographs into a single hardcover volume structured across four chapters. The book presents 115 images of two companions — Sasuke and Tomoe — photographed with a closeness that keeps the distance between subject and photographer in constant question. Repetition and proximity are the book's primary formal tools. The sequence accumulates rather than narrates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reading that positions \u003cem\u003eSasuke\u003c\/em\u003e alongside \u003ca href=\"\/products\/ravens-masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Ravens by Masahisa Fukase — photobook available at Lokator100\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e as indirect self-portraiture is well-supported by the images. The cats' eyes function as reflective surfaces; the photographer's position stays insistently close. What the book tracks across 192 pages is less the animals themselves than the quality of attention Fukase brings to them: sustained, inward, and resistant to sentiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn essay by Tomo Kosuga of the Masahisa Fukase Archive is included. The text is in Japanese only. Published in 2021 by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/akaaka-art-publishing\" title=\"All Akaaka Art Publishing titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eAkaaka Art Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e, the book sits within a body of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ephotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e in which formal structure and autobiographical pressure are inseparable. Readers interested in the broader arc of Fukase's practice may also want to consider the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/masahisa-fukase-1961-1991-retrospective\" title=\"Masahisa Fukase retrospective photobook at Lokator100\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase 1961–1991 Retrospective\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/yoko-masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Yoko by Masahisa Fukase — photobook at Lokator100\"\u003eYoko\u003c\/a\u003e, both available through the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\" title=\"Japanese photobooks available at Lokator100\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akaaka Art Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52790008643930,"sku":"9784865411362","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/sasuke-masahisa-fukase-front-cover.jpg?v=1778428126"},{"product_id":"sleep-creek-dylan-hausthor-pia-paulina-guilmoth","title":"Sleep Creek – Dylan Hausthor \u0026 Pia Paulina Guilmoth","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/em\u003e — Collaborative Photobook by Dylan Hausthor and Pia Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/em\u003e is a collaborative photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/dylan-hausthor\"\u003eDylan Hausthor\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003ePia-Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e, weaving New England backwoods rituals, animals, and human figures into a dark, ambiguous rural myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book constructs a world in which documentary observation and staged construction are held in deliberate, unresolved tension. Its visual logic is nocturnal and accumulative: smoke, skin, fur, mud, and water are registered with the same granular attention, refusing a hierarchy between the human and the nonhuman, the witnessed and the arranged. Animals appear only when being hunted; humans balance between an unapologetic existence and an abyss of secrecy. Colonial histories, rural labour, and intimate bodies share the frame without explanation or resolution. The boundary between fact and fiction is not blurred carelessly — it is held open as a structural condition of the work. As the artists write: \"There are no beginnings, middles, or ends in their experiences of the world, nor a hard line between the experienced and the directed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is entirely shot in New England — a region Hausthor and Guilmoth chose not to represent as a regional identity, but to use as a stage for ideas of story, myth, and character that exceed any specific geography. In their own words: \"Colonialism is apparent everywhere, every square foot of woods has been tainted by something human, and every pond is always covered with algae. There is anonymity in all of their characters, akin to the faceless identity of small-town New England.\" The sequence does not move toward a single conclusion; it circles back through the same terrain, the same figures, and the same uncertain light until place itself becomes the central subject. As Hausthor and Guilmoth have stated: \"There's something deeply personal about many of these images, but we hope that there is something more universal in the intensity of the characters and their interactions with the land.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVivian Ewing writes of the work: \"The town is quiet, the streets are empty. But if you take the road into the backwoods, you'll start to hear some noises. A branch snaps and there are voices, laughing. A few lights are on at one house and a fire burns behind a barn. And if you relax your eyes you can see that there are people all around. The folks who live further out don't follow the same rules. They have their own idea of what the night is for. Hausthor and Guilmoth listen to the people who tell them stories of birth and death and their photographs are remnants of those who live along a little creek that floods on the same day each spring. This book is the result of many days in and around the stream and a testament to the power of the myths that fuel the towns in the distance.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotography Books\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100, and sits naturally alongside work in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animals-plants-other-lives\"\u003eAnimals, Plants \u0026amp; Other Lives\u003c\/a\u003e thematic collection. 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The house is not documented so much as used as a vessel: a nowhere space held between wakefulness and something closer to dormancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/void-photo\" title=\"Browse all publications from Void Photo\"\u003eVoid Photo\u003c\/a\u003e as a hardcover edition of 1250 copies, measuring 24 x 32 cm across 80 pages. The physical object is substantial without being excessive — its scale proportionate to the slow, deliberate rhythm of the sequence inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Essential Solitude extends a line of inquiry consistent across Zelenkova's practice: the relationship between image and text, the weight of interior life, the photographic sequence as a form of sustained philosophical attention. The book stands as a concentrated example of that method applied to a specific and charged architectural site.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Void","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52802889154906,"sku":"9786185479145","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/the-essential-solitude-tereza-zelenkova-front-cover.jpg?v=1788865465"},{"product_id":"soviet-transport-hoshino-ai-softcover","title":"Soviet Transport Photobook – Hoshino Ai","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSoviet Transport – Abandoned Vehicles and Transit Infrastructure Across Post-Soviet Regions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoviet Transport\u003c\/em\u003e is a color photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hoshino-ai\" title=\"Browse all photobooks and publications by Hoshino Ai\"\u003eHoshino Ai\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tokyo-kirara\" title=\"Explore the full Tokyo Kirara catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTokyo Kirara\u003c\/a\u003e. 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-photobook-hoshino-ai-front-cover.jpg?v=1788865643"},{"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. 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The book keeps its material close to its damaged state: mould, runoff, cheap toner, torn edges, ghostly snapshots, local reports, discarded magazines, animals, children, junk, weather. What survives here survives in pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003ePia Paulina Guilmoth\u003c\/a\u003e and Jesse Bull Saffire do not present central Maine as document or nostalgia, but as a place sifted through by hand — inhabited, distrusted, and reassembled. The Xerox texture is not incidental. It refuses refinement. Instead of restoration, the book works through abrasion, clutter, and stubborn attachment, until debris begins to read like a social history that never intended to become an archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe source material is scavenged: family archive photographs, images taken on a low-resolution digital camera while trespassing and searching abandoned houses and junk shops, town reports, and forgotten newspapers. Guilmoth draws on the same territory she has worked across her practice — queer life in rural Maine, the unstable boundary between tenderness and threat, the way a place accumulates and erodes at once. Her book \u003cem\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/em\u003e reached the shortlist of the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, and Fishworm extends that inquiry into more abrasive, collaborative terrain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJesse Bull Saffire's role in the book is not decorative. She describes herself as a community organiser rather than an artist, and that position shapes what the book is. Fishworm is not built from aesthetic distance; it comes from shared life, local knowledge, scavenging, and a practised closeness to the social and material remains of a place. The collaboration is structural, not supplementary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/void-photo\"\u003eVoid Photo\u003c\/a\u003e in 2025, the book is part of a broader \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue that takes the form and production of the book seriously as a critical choice. The softcover with poster dust jacket, the Xerox-based printing, the 232-page count, the edition of 1000 copies — none of these are incidental. They are the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePia Paulina Guilmoth \u0026amp; Jesse Bull Saffire\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePia Paulina Guilmoth lives and works in rural central Maine. Her work moves between queer life, place, memory, and the unstable boundary between tenderness and threat. Her book \u003ca href=\"\/products\/flowers-drink-the-river-pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003eFlowers Drink the River\u003c\/a\u003e reached the shortlist of the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards. She has also collaborated with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/dylan-hausthor\"\u003eDylan Hausthor\u003c\/a\u003e on \u003ca href=\"\/products\/sleep-creek-dylan-hausthor-pia-paulina-guilmoth\"\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJesse Bull Saffire describes herself not as an artist but as a community organiser, working on land return to the Wabanaki Nations. In Fishworm, that position is structural: the book is not built from distance, but from shared life, local knowledge, scavenging, and a practised closeness to the social and material remains of place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Void","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53008450945370,"sku":"9786185479466","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/fishworm-pia-paulina-guilmoth-jesse-bull-saffire-cover.jpg?v=1793463721"},{"product_id":"hunger-epilogue-michael-ackerman-photobook","title":"Hunger: Epilogue (2nd Ed.) — Michael Ackerman","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHunger: Epilogue — Michael Ackerman, Second Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHunger: Epilogue\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by Michael Ackerman, published by Void as the closing volume of the publisher's Hunger series, which ran to seven issues across twenty-eight artists. It is Ackerman's first publication since \u003cem\u003eHalf Life\u003c\/em\u003e (Delpire, 2010), drawing together photographs from his debut project \u003cem\u003eEnd Time City\u003c\/em\u003e alongside material that had not previously been published. The book is printed on newspaper paper in an edition of 1800 copies, measuring 22 × 32 cm across 64 pages, including three oversized fold-outs and more than 130 photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAckerman's images work through blur, abrasion, and a consistent closeness to the subject rather than documentary distance. The sequence moves between his earliest work and photographs held back until this volume, forming what reads less as a chronological record than as an accumulation of related images across time. A text by filmmaker Jem Cohen, a longtime friend of Ackerman's, runs alongside the photographs. It offers an insider's account of the artist rather than an explanation of the work — a separate register placed next to the images rather than over them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSecond Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis second edition revises the now sold-out first printing of \u003cem\u003eHunger: Epilogue\u003c\/em\u003e. It introduces previously unpublished photographs and a new sequence, and reduces the format from the first edition's broadsheet dimensions to the current 22 × 32 cm. 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