Japanese photographer

The reedit of a Japanese photobook classic! Coastal landscapes of Hokkaido serve as the backdrop for the deeply dark and impressionistic photographs of ominous flocks of crows in 'Ravens'. Masahisa FUKASE's mourning or an allegory of dark post-war Japan?

In photo volume 'Red String' by Yoshikatsu FUJI, the thread that still connects the family even after the separation is taken up again. Designed as a double volume, it reassembles collected family images and thus reveals the lineage that was predetermined

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 x 1 cm., 36 pp., 30 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English, 187 gr., Ltd. ed. to 1,000 copies

HC with dust jacket, 29,5 x 23 x 2 cm., 120 pp., color ills., text language: English

'TTP' by Hayahisa TOMIYASU consists of a series of photos taken from the 8th floor window of his student dormitory in Leipzig. Each picture is composed similarly, but turning the page, we see how the function of the ping-pong table is constantly changing.

by von McLaren, Stephen & Bryan Formhals (eds.) - HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 22 x 4 cm., 320 pp., more than 500 images, text language: English. Thames & Hudson, 2014.

The images in out-of-print book 'Honeymoon' by Kohey KANNO were taken on Saipan, a former Japanese island that has been owned by the USA since 1944. Perhaps they are so bleak because they depicted the scene of the crime and the place had not been cleaned.

SC, 21 x 30 cm., 16 pp., 32 full paged color ills., Ltd. to 100 copies

The volume 'Sasuke' includes emblematic photo series about the two cats of Masahisa FUKASE, Sasuke & Momoe. It combines unpublished images as well as photo icons, because his cats have already been the subject of several books. This is to be the last one.

HC with dust jacket, 21 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 43 b/w ills. (+36 b/w in small format from the Kamaitchi series on double page), trilingual: English, German, French