{"title":"Shinya Arimoto","description":"\u003ch2\u003eJapanese Photographer and Photobook Artist\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShinya Arimoto was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971 and graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1994. His practice spans documentary portraiture, street photography, and landscape, with a sustained engagement with Tibet that extends from his earliest work through to recent publications. He is closely associated with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Browse all Zen Foto Gallery titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e, which has published several of his major photobooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArimoto's Tibet work is defined by close, repeated observation — of people, terrain, and spiritual geography accumulated across years of return visits. His Tokyo series, including \u003cem\u003eTokyo Circulation\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTokyo Debugger\u003c\/em\u003e, bring a comparable attentiveness to urban life. The body of work is extensively documented through solo exhibitions across Japan, Europe, and Asia, and is held in public collections including the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts and the Japan Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt Lokator100, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/tibet-shinya-arimoto\" title=\"View Tibet by Shinya Arimoto – available now at Lokator100\"\u003eTibet - Shinya Arimoto\u003c\/a\u003e — published by Zen Foto Gallery in 2019 — is currently available. Related titles can be found in the broader \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our curated selection of photobooks at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue. All items ship tracked from Germany with accurate condition descriptions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"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Shinya Arimoto's out-of-print debut, \u003cem\u003ePortrait of Tibet\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), extended with previously unpublished photographs and published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore the full Zen Foto Gallery catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto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-portrait.jpg?v=1778507868"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/shinya-arimoto.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}