Founded in 1986 by Michitaka Ota, Sokyu-sha specializes in photo volumes. In addition to titles by established photographers such as Daido MORIYAMA, Michio YAMAUCHI, Masahisa FUKASE and Miyako ISHIUCHI, it also publishs titles by young talents & newcomers

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., 122 color ills., text language: ? Ltd. to only 600 copies
58,00 € *
'Yashi no mi' by Miho YOKOCHI is a photo report about her travels to coastal cities in Japan - in the tradition of Tamiko NISHIMURA, who traveled to the Tohoku, Hokuriku, Kanto, Kansai and Chugoku in the 1970s and published her series as a photo book, too
48,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
The b/w photographs from the 1970s in 'Watarasegawa. Time goes by' by Mitsuru FUJITA show mountains, fields, roads and abandoned places in a place where a disaster occurred in a copper mine in 1880.- testimonies of a past struggle between nature and man.
39,50 € * Weight 0.4 kg
'Yokohama Gorakuso' contains b/w architecture photos, but Miyako ISHIUCHI makes from them soul full portrait photographs of a building. A secret history of this building complex and in certain ways an answer to her first photo volume, 'Apartment' (1978).
48,00 € *
In 'Shikawatari' (Deer Crossing), Chieko SHIRAISHI focuses a herd of deer. The shy animals roam through the snowy landscape of wintry Dōtō (Eastern Hokkaido), across frozen lakes and sparse forests. Both keep distance from another, and watching each other
0,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 23 x 1 cm., 80 pp., 68 color ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English. Ltd. to 500 copies
48,00 € *
The photo volume 'Cascade' by Yasuhiro OGAWA reproduces film material that the Japanese photographer found in his mother's house after her death. It is his form of reappraisal of his childhood memories, dozens of years after he last saw these films.
44,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
HC, 24 x 28 cm., 74 pp., 61 b/w iIls., English, Ltd. to 600 copies
48,00 € *
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31,5 x 22 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., 57 color ills., text language:
0,00 € *
The idea for the volume 'The Dreaming' by Yasuhiro OGAWA arose when he, on the occasion of his 50th birthday, went through his archives from 27 years as a photographer & traveler. The retrospective contains moments, which has something dreamlike for him.
55,00 € Weight 0.3 kg