Exploring the extremities of still life photo book
A second form was born.

This far-reaching still life photo book, born from the encounter between Aoki Kenji, who explores the non-objective through photography, and Yamaguchi Nobuhiro, who has transformed Japanese beauty into design, is now being given a new second form.

The first edition, released last September, was a folding folder that resembled malt, which gently encased the six unbound volumes, but the second edition has been bound together with a newly written preface and other elements, leaving the photos intact, to reveal a vertical spine. It is an unprecedented transformation, as if an exoskeleton mayfly had transformed into a swan with a backbone as soon as it had overwintered.

Publisher: Osamu Kushida


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For customers purchasing online,You cannot specify the number.Please be aware of this. (the hand binding edition of the first impression Therefore, the number will be between 251 and 350.)


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◉We plan to start shipping from late March. Once we have an estimated shipping date, we will contact customers who have purchased the product by email to inform them of the delivery date and time.

Author Profile

Kenji Aoki (b. 1968, Tokyo) 
Photographer specializing in still life taken from a viewpoint focused on geometric forms. He was taught to draw by his uncle, the craft designer Mosuke Yoshitake, and later discovered the Bauhaus design principles while studying at Kuwasawa Design School. He was influenced by the idea of “The Non-Objective World” proposed by Malevich that resonates with the idea of Japanese zen. He began to seek out non-objects among the forms in reality through the use of photography. Upon relocating to the United States in 2010 he started taking images for The New York Times Magazine and TIME, which were critically acclaimed. In 2021 he published SPACE with Kehrer Verlag. He returned to Japan in 2022. https://www.aokiphoto.com/