Staff V – Photographs 1977 – 1977
Posted onStaff V – Photographs 1977 – 1977 – 260 pages – 24 x 26 cm
First edition. Softcover photobook.
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“Embers” by Bing Nv
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“This is a diary about pain.
Young souls wandered,
they finally learn to face the ugly topic,
with the mask of beauty.
This is my sixteen to eighteen years old traces”
Bing Nv
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Bing Nv
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“I was born in Guiyang, Guizhou.
This city has a huge meaning to me and inspires a lot.
People who live here have a deep memory in their genes about plants and mountain that surrounded them for ages.
So now we usually shift our mind from the city to nature.
Now I’m trying to show how nature reflects in people who live there, in their urban lives, because a part of it still remains inside, even if we are trying to separate from it. It’s my actual project.”
Bing Nv
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Naoe Sato, Yohei Nagasaka… – Ref. 1 – 1976
Posted onNaoe Sato, Yohei Nagasaka… – Ref. 1 – 1976 – 8 pages – 26 x 38 cm
First edition. Artists: Sato Naoe, Sumimoto Kazuko, Taguchi Michiaki, Tsukahara Toshio, Tomita Masanori, Nagasaka Yohei… Softcover photobook.
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“Somewhere Else” by Casper Kent
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“Sakura Lust” by Casper Kent
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Sakura Lust is the first monograph by Casper Kent.
Shot over the course of a year – from the arrival of the first cherry blossom through the Japanese Autumn – during nights spent in ryokans and love hotels throughout Japan.
Echoing the Japanese adoration for Hanami (The annual tradition of welcoming the briefly blossoming Sakura, enjoying that moment and celebrating all it represents) the intimacy captured in Sakura Lust floats somewhere between an erotic dream and reality.
The book serves as a lust story, an attempt to seize a fleeting moment in life and make it last indefinitely.
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“Tokyo Diary” by Casper Kent
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Tokyo Diary is a photo diary of contemporary Japan compiled over a 4-year period. Images document the small beauties all around in everyday (and not so every day) life.
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Casper Kent
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Casper Kent is an artist working between the UK and Japan. His work is concerned with intimacy, ephemeral beauty and temporal escapism.
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“Tokyo Girls” by Emily Ashcroft
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“I first visited Japan in 2014 with my boyfriend, who is also a photographer. We fell in love with it and now visit and work there several times a year.
Through working jobs for Japanese magazines and socialising in Tokyo, I met many young girls with dreams and ambition and became interested in documenting those bright, young female inhabitants of Tokyo – I wanted to capture them in that particular moment in their lives, while on their journey to womanhood. Tokyo Girls is a personal project that I began in 2015 and decided to compile into my first book.
The girls in my book have all grown so much in just a few years and it’s amazing to see, but it’s documenting them on the cusp of adulthood is what I find so beautiful, there’s an innocence and wonder to them.
My works focus is on young female energy, real girls in colourful and natural environments. I see the beauty in imperfection.”
Emily Ashcroft
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Emily Ashcroft
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Fashion & Portrait photographer living in the UK.
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