Mari Katayama - Synthesis hartmann books

Mari Katayama - Synthesis hartmann booksSPBH Editions 2025 Synthesis is a striking artists book that brings together six years of work by acclaimed Japanese multimedia artist Mari Katayama. Created between 2019 and 2025 a period marked by the birth of her daughter and a return to Gunma, the rural province where she grew up the book brings together nine photographic series, including the brand new Tree of Life, all produced in her home studio. This space becomes both a site of meditation and

to a loose thread on a button or a stray wisp of hair

Cultures and histories coexist

monuments are covered in dust and salt

As documentarists operating at the apogee of photojournalism

Ciao Press / Witty Books 2023

from 1990 to 2021

in the years from 2016 to 2019

Managing an animal once it has been killed requires preparation and knowledge that comes from studies and advice passed down from father to son

104 Pages - Hardback - 256mm x 210mm

and the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral

her decision to end her own life

contains portraits of his elderly mother sitting in her chair in a retirement community in England