Asia

The photo volume 'Edit Beijing' by Guy TILIM is the result of his artist residency in China. Other renowned photographers whose works have been published in this series of photo books with original prints are Pieter HUGO, Michael KENNA and Hannah MODIGH.

In out-of-print photo volume 'Matriarchs', Austrian photographer Maria HAAS focuses on the investigation of cultures in which women have a special status. She opens these cultures to the viewer and captures their beauty and vitality in sensitive portraits

In his photo book 'Ctrl-X', Kai LÖFFELBEIN explores the use of limited resources and documents the path of e-waste from Europe and the USA to the post-apocalyptic Agbogbloshie (Ghana), the e-waste city Guiyu (China) and the backyard workshops of New Delhi

HC with dust jacket & obi, 26,5 x 26,5 x 3 cm., 324 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

In out-of-print street-photography book 'Istanbul', Andreas HERZAU captures facets of the city on the border between Europe and Asia: Workers on the ferry from one continent to the other as well as Muslims at prayer and people in front of fashion posters.

Photo book 'Cotton Rose', is the result of a long-term project in a Japanese prefecture, where Jitka HANZLOVÁ visited people and ceremonies over two years. For her, the cotton rose is a symbol of the Japanese soul: fragile and persistent at the same time.

In 2019, Daido MORIYAMA spontaneously decided to publish photographs from Yokohama, the 2nd largest city in Japan, where he had had 'a good time' during the summer. The b/w material was enough for two volumes, 'Akai Kutsu' volume 1 & 2 in the same format.

The photographs in the book 'Hey! Hattori' by Yasushi MORI illustrate the love spun together by the Japanese photographer and his pet cat Hattori-kun, who fled Futaba, a town in Fukushima when the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated the region in 2011.

In the photo book 'China Dream', which bears the name of a patriotic calendar, we take part in the study by exiled Chinese photographer Teresa ENG about the contrast between cultural knowledge about China and the reality of a country in constant change.

The photo volume 'Monochrome' contains a fine selection of very contrasting contemporary black and white photographs by Daido MORIYAMA, taken in the years between 2008 and 2012. The volume complements its simultaneously published counterpart 'Color'.

Cloth bound (no dust jackets, as issued)

From post-empire to the new Middle Kingdom. For his series 'The Pearl River', photographer Christian LUTZ went to the Chinese special economic zone Macao. His photographic gaze laconically and insistently scans the smooth surfaces of this brave new world.

In his ongoing 'City Diary' project, Anders PETERSEN - awarded with the Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Award, DGPh - examines the less public side of urban life, in volumes #1 to #3, he photographed such different cities like Stockholm, Tokyo as well as St. Petersburg

Handsewn pb., 21,5 x 28 cm., 44 pp., 25 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 COPIES

The photo volume 'Rowing a Tetrapod' by Japanese photographer Fumi ISHINO follows an aleatoric structure and is about the distinction between the local & the foreign and how it blurs. The book creates an imaginary space that is prone to misinterpretation.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), linen, 23 x 28,5 cm., 120 pp., 100 color ills., Japanese

Pb. with obi belt (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 3,5 cm., 365 pp., 410 ills. (365 b/w ills., 45 ills. in color), text language: Japanese

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