• Cover of the photobook “TIBET” by Shinya Arimoto with a high-contrast red and white portrait and the title across the centre.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Tibet

Tibet – Shinya Arimoto

Shinya Arimoto
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TIBET by Shinya Arimoto is a rare Japanese photobook of powerful black-and-white portraits and landscapes from the Tibetan cultural area, presenting the formative work of today’s acclaimed Tokyo street-portrait photographer.

Hardcover, 22.0 x 29.0 cm, 1.35 kg , 176 pages
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About the Book

TIBET is the expanded new edition of Shinya Arimoto’s long out-of-print debut photobook Portrait of Tibet (1999), now including previously unpublished images. During several trips in his twenties, Arimoto travelled through the wider Tibetan cultural region – across parts of China, India and Nepal – living, eating and sleeping alongside nomads, pilgrims and urban residents whose portraits fill this book.

Shot entirely in monochrome, the 118 photographs capture a Tibet on the verge of rapid social and economic change, balancing intimate close-ups with wide landscapes and village scenes. Published by Zen Foto Gallery as a high-quality hardcover, TIBET spans 176 pages, is bilingual (English/Japanese) and limited to just 1,000 copies – an essential title for collectors of Japanese photography, documentary and portrait work focusing on Tibet and the Himalayas.

Hardcover, 22.0 x 29.0 cm, 1.35 kg, 176 pages, English/Japanese
ISBN: 9784905453802

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.

In 2008 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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Publisher / Manufacturer: Zen Foto Gallery
Country of origin: Japan
Website: https://zen-foto.jp

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