{"title":"Yoshiichi Hara","description":"\u003ch2\u003eYoshiichi Hara (原芳市), 1948–2019\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoshiichi Hara was a Tokyo-born photographer who studied at Chiyoda Design Photography Academy before developing a practice that spanned five decades. His work is grounded in the social and subcultural margins of Japanese urban life — strip theatres, night districts, the bodies and spaces that mainstream photography largely passed over. His approach is documentary in method but consistently personal in framing, and his books hold a distinct place within the broader field of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHara published extensively across his career, with a significant portion of his later work appearing through \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Explore all titles published by Sokyusha available at Lokator100\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e, the Tokyo-based independent imprint that has consistently supported serious photographic work outside commercial publishing channels. His relationship with Sokyusha produced several of his most considered books, including titles concerned with light, time, and the texture of disappearing environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title currently available at Lokator100 is \u003ca href=\"\/products\/yoshiichi-hara-walk-while-ye-have-the-light-sokyusha\" title=\"View Walk while ye have the light by Yoshiichi Hara – available at Lokator100\"\u003eWalk while ye have the light - Yoshiichi Hara\u003c\/a\u003e, published by Sokyusha. It is among the works from the final period of his practice and reflects the quieter, more contemplative register his photography moved toward in later years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLokator100 is an independent bookstore based in Germany. Titles ship from Germany with careful packing.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"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\" title=\"Browse all Yoshiichi Hara titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eYoshiichi Hara\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Explore all Sokyusha publications in the Lokator100 catalogue\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e, 2011\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Explore all Sokyusha publications in the Lokator100 catalogue\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e in 2011, \u003cem\u003eWalk while ye have the light\u003c\/em\u003e is the follow-up to Hara's 2008 photobook \u003cem\u003eDark of True\u003c\/em\u003e. It extends his sustained investigation into the unstable boundary between truth and falsehood — a territory he treats not as metaphor but as photographic fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title is drawn from John 12:35: \"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.\" Hara takes this as both subject and method. Across 63 photographs on 68 pages, he records night streets, rainy riverbanks, glistening pavements, and fragmentary bodies. Light refracts through water, blurs edges, and dissolves the familiar into something closer to memory than documentation. The images resist fixed time — they seem to occupy past, present, and a possible future simultaneously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 260 × 232 mm hardcover is printed entirely in monochrome. Its physical restraint is consistent with the work's tone: nothing is embellished. The book has become difficult to source and is frequently listed as out of stock by dealers, making it a sought-after title among collectors of Japanese photobooks and those following Hara's output from \u003cem\u003eMandala Zukan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFubaika\u003c\/em\u003e through to \u003cem\u003eStripper Zukan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDark of True\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor those building a considered collection in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photography and photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e, this title represents one of Hara's most fully realized later statements — quieter in register than his earlier erotic work, but no less precise in its attention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52687223521626,"sku":"SOKY-HARA-WALK-LIGHT-2011","price":42.0,"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.jpg?v=1778662130"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/yoshiichi-hara.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}