• Cover of the photobook “TIBET” by Shinya Arimoto with a high-contrast red and white portrait and the title across the centre.
  • Inside page from “TIBET” showing two figures and a loaded pack horse standing on a snowy plateau with mountains in the background.
  • Inside page from “TIBET” depicting a solitary person walking along a rough mountain path in a high-altitude landscape.
  • Spread from “TIBET” with a close view of an animal skull among rocks and a portrait of a man standing in a rocky mountain landscape.
  • Spread from “TIBET” showing a young girl carrying a bundle of firewood on her back and a young yak standing in open terrain.
  • Inside page from “TIBET” with a portrait of a rider next to a white horse, taken in a rural Tibetan landscape.
  • Inside page from “TIBET” showing a man in traditional clothing standing in front of distant snow-covered mountains.
  • Inside page from “TIBET” with a portrait of a young woman wearing a patterned coat and hood in an outdoor landscape.
  • Spread from “TIBET” showing people riding in the back of a small truck in a village and a group of four figures standing together on a street.
  • Spread from “TIBET” showing a monk standing in a doorway in one image and a group of young monks sitting on the grass near a stupa and prayer flags in the other.
  • Inside page from “TIBET” depicting a woman in a richly patterned coat carrying a small child in her arms on a street.
  • Spread from “TIBET” with a Tibetan couple standing in a busy street scene and a dark interior portrait of a seated monk.
  • Spread from “TIBET” showing a family group posed together and a young man standing in front of hanging prayer flags.
  • Inside page from “TIBET” featuring a woman in a heavy coat standing alone on a high plateau with distant mountains behind her.
  • Back view of the red cloth hardcover of “TIBET” by Shinya Arimoto with the Zen Foto Gallery imprint at the bottom.
  • Close-up of the spine and lower corner of the photobook “TIBET” by Shinya Arimoto, highlighting the red-and-cream cloth cover and printed title.
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Tibet - Shinya Arimoto

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Tibet is a Shinya Arimoto photobook of 118 black-and-white portraits and landscapes from the Tibetan cultural region, published as a limited Zen Foto Gallery hardcover.

  • Publisher: Zen Foto Gallery
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Pages: 176
  • Photographs: 118 (black and white)
  • Language: Bilingual (English/Japanese)
  • Limitation: 1,000 copies
  • Size: 22 × 29 cm
  • ISBN: 9784905453802
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About the Book

Tibet is the expanded edition of Shinya Arimoto’s out-of-print debut Portrait of Tibet (1999). It adds previously unpublished photographs. Arimoto travelled in his twenties through the wider Tibetan cultural region. The work moves across parts of China, India, and Nepal. He lived alongside nomads, pilgrims, and city residents.

Shot entirely in monochrome, Tibet presents 118 photographs. The sequence balances close portraits with village scenes and wide landscapes. The book documents everyday life at a moment of imminent social and economic change. The approach stays direct and observational.

About the Author

Japanese photographer Shinya Arimoto (born 1971, Osaka) is a leading figure in contemporary Japanese photography, known for his intense street portraits and long-term documentary projects. After graduating from Visual Arts Osaka in 1994, he began working in Asia; his early series in Tibet earned him the prestigious 35th Taiyo Award in 1998 for Portrait of Tibet.

In2008 Arimoto founded Totem Pole Photo Gallery in Tokyo, an artist-run space that has become a hub for independent photography and his ongoing ariphoto selection series. His later books – including Tokyo Circulation, Tokyo Debugger and Tokyo Strut – brought him international recognition and led to the Tadahiko Hayashi Award and the Photographic Society of Japan’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. Exhibiting widely in Japan, Europe and China, Arimoto continues to explore the relationship between people, urban space and landscape; TIBET remains a key work that reveals the roots of his photographic language.

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Weight: 1.35 kg

Publisher / Manufacturer: Zen Foto Gallery
Country of origin: Japan
Website: https://zen-foto.jp

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