Asia

In the out-of-print photo book 'Landscapes', Chinese photographer Chen ZHUO explores the landscape and the changes and interactions between humans and nature. The artist's alienation from himself is also explored through the creation of natural scenarios.

SC, 15 x 21 cm., color ills. + signed picture, Ltd. to 250 copies

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28,5 cm., 192 pp. +16 fold outs, 118 color ills., Chinese/English, Lt.d to 600 numbered copies

Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 30 cm., 168 pp., bilingual texts: German / English

HC, 29 x 19,5 cm., 111 pp.

The Chinese artist uses the backdrop of commercial photoshoots to create new, unexpected narratives through the manipulation of bodies & objects in space. The series also speaks of the relationship between Western capitalist motifs and the global contexts

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

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 19 x 1,5 cm., 140 pp., 60 b/w and colour ills., bilingual texts: English / French

In 'The Screw', Akihito YOSHIDA shows people who make the 'screws' of ships in small workshop in Bangladesh. They work together to create a cold, hard metal by pouring molten red liquid, like magma, into the pitch-black ground, covered with iron sand.