This special edition comes as a box set limited to 20 copies. In addition to the photobook (signed), it includes a photographic 8x10 gelatin silver print created by Maki himself (of a motif included in the book). All 20 prints feature the same motif and are signed on the back.

The photobook “Japan Somewhere” by French photographer Maki includes images taken between 2001 and 2015 during many visits to Japan. The high-contrast black-and-white photos, from streetsnaps to portraits, landscapes and the occasional erotic image, paint a manifold picture of Maki’s extensive experience of Japan while avoiding the common mistake of needless orientalism.
Says Russet Lederman in her essay “A Journey to Japan Somewhere”: “Maki approaches photography as a series of open-ended encounters experienced from both inside and outside Japanese culture. (...) "Japan Somewhere" travels both figuratively and literally into Japan’s back alleys.”

Print Size
Sheet
8 x 10 inches
Limited Edition
20
Book Size
280 x 195 mm
Pages
144 pages, 96 images
Binding
Softcover
Publication Date
2018
Language
English, Japanese
Box Size
320 x 240 x 30 mm

Artist Profile

Maki

Born and based in Marseilles, France,
Maki is a photographer, publisher, composer of acousmatic music, DJ and radio producer.
Began taking photographs when he was 15 years old and studied photography in school in the early 80's.

He began his photographic career working as a photographer within the field of advertising, industrial photography, still photography, and modelling agencies. Disappointed he stopped shooting for a period of 6 years before returning to photography from 2000 onwards with a more personal and experimental approach.

In 2007 Maki was a founding member of the collective of European photographers SMOKE (Roger Guaus, Jukka Onnela, Monia Montali, Laetitia Donval, François Bodeux, Idalina Pedrosa and Maki).

In 2010 he founded Média Immédiat Editions. A collection of mini photo books. 10 mini books have been published to date with Onaka Koji, Morten Andersen, Ed Templeton, Ichiba Daisuke…

Maki has exhibited his workds in both Europe and Japan and has published his works in numerous international publications.