Yusuke Yamaya / ONSEN I

"ONSEN I" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Yusuke Yamatani.
 The tour of unmaintained hot springs, called "noyu" or "yato", which naturally spouts out in nature, began about 15 years ago, not long after Yamatani picked up a camera. We are still continuing to solicit applicants through ZINE. The communication between people centered on hot springs and waterside places is described in the Nihon Shoki and Manyoshu, and while Santani continued to photograph hot springs, he began to experience the primordial era. It is said that it has become a point of view that listens and thinks about different planets beyond space. These series of practices are not limited to the act of photographing nature and human figures that exist unchanged over time, but also attempt to recapture humans and the world itself by interposing the body in the unvarnished landscape. It can be said that it is an attempt to
The book was designed by Yutaro Yamada, who also worked on the logo for flotsam books, and the cover was created by Yamada actually accompanying him on a trip to the hot springs in Yamaya and directly copying the gushing hot springs and sulfur onto paper. The original pattern is faithfully reproduced by silk screen and special processing.  
 
Publisher: flotsam books
Publication year: 2023
Number of pages pages: 64
Size size: 257x190mm
Format format: Softcover (special processing)
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