"KANON" by Shinpei Yamagami

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Photos and text: Shinpei Yamagami
Text: Masataka Haba
Editing and bookbinding design: Satoru Machiguchi
Design: Sara Shimizu (MATCH and Company., Ltd.)
Format: 228mm length / 171mm width
Number of pages: 200 pages
Number of photos: 116
Specifications: Funaoka canvas bound rounded spine
Label on front and back cover
Title stamped on the spine
Comes in a slipcase
Language: Japanese and English
List price: 11,000 yen (base price: 10,000 yen + tax 10%)
Published by: bookshop M

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Part numberMbk2510000383761

Specification For Yamagami Shinpei, the world was complex and inaccessible.

Camera in hand, he ventures into the mountains, staring intently at the trees there and taking photographs.
From the top of the cliff, I take photos capturing the waves crashing on the ocean.
For Yamagami, it was his only way to come into contact with the world.
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One day, a wounded butterfly landed on Yamakami's hand. Even though it was injured, the butterfly tried to fly.
From that day on, Yamagami began taking photographs of butterflies.
For Yamagami, this flickering life became a means to connect him to the world.

The photo book, which is divided into three chapters, is structured to trace the photographer's past, present, and future as he soars alongside the butterflies, a life that has always feared and denied peace.

KANON - A round of flickering lives

The photographs on the mountain capture the despair and hope of those of us living in the modern age.

Shinpei Yamagami
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1984. After graduating from Tokyo Visual Arts, he worked at Iino Media Pro before beginning his career as a photographer. He uses his incredible visual abilities to create photographs while thoroughly confronting his subjects. He began his career at the group exhibition "LUMIX MEETS/ BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #3" (Paris/Tokyo, 2016), and won the Nara Yoshitomo Award at the "Daikanyama photo fair competition" in 2017. After that, he went on to exhibit at "Yamagami Shinpei Exhibition" Shibunkaku (Tokyo/Kyoto, 2019) and "eDisintegration Loops" POETIC SCAPE (Tokyo, 2019), and in 2022 published his first photo book "Helix" by designer Akira Minagawa (Mina Perhonen). In 2023, he was selected for the exhibition "Look Before You Jump: Emerging Japanese Artists Vol. 20" organized by the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, and in conjunction with the exhibition, he will publish "Epiphany" (bookshop M, 2023) by bookbinder Satoru Machiguchi. He will also publish "liminal (eyes) YAMAGAMI" (bookshop M, 2022) and hold an exhibition of the same name at the former Osaragi Jiro Teahouse (Kamakura, 2023).

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