Yokota Daisuke 横田大輔 (1983–) - Tokyo Broken Mirrors 2020 - 2020

Item Description
横田大輔 Daisuke Yokota — Broken Mirrors 2020
Publisher: Artbeat Publishers , supported by Fuji Xerox
Series: NEOTOKYOZINE
Published: November 2020
Pages: 88 (full colour)
Size: 318 × 236 mm

A rare, out-of-print photobook by one of Japan's most internationally celebrated contemporary photographers.

"Broken Mirrors 2020" is a work born from disruption — both planned and accidental.
Originally conceived as a critical artistic response to Tokyo's Olympic frenzy, Yokota's project "Tokyo Broken Mirrors" involves the act of breaking mirrors at specific locations across the city, then photographing the shattered surfaces.
When the COVID-19 pandemic overtook the world, the process migrated entirely into the locked-down interior of his Tokyo apartment — a sealed chamber, a labyrinth of reflections and confinement.
The result is a book unlike any other: a document of the finished photographs alongside equally weighted records of the secret room where the work was made.
Shot on an old camera with deliberately incorrect dates stamped on the prints, the imagery dislocates time and space, compressing the paranoia, isolation, and shattered certainties of 2020 into photographic matter.
The broken mirror becomes a metaphor for the fractured reality of the pandemic city, and for photography's own relationship to truth, surface, and the body.
This is a new, mint-condition copy of a photobook that is now out of print and increasingly sought after by collectors worldwide.
Fuji Xerox printing support ensures exceptional colour reproduction across all 88 pages.

Size
Height: 32 cm
Width: 23.5 cm

Weight 300g

Condition
New, unused and in mint condition.
No folds, marks, or damage of any kind.

Artist Profile
Daisuke Yokota (横田大輔, b. 1983, Saitama) is a Tokyo-based experimental photographer widely regarded as one of the most significant voices in contemporary photography internationally.
He graduated from the Nippon Photography Institute in 2003 and rose to global prominence through a series of landmark achievements: winner of the Outset | Unseen Exhibition Fund at Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam (2013); winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award (2016), one of Europe's most prestigious photography prizes; and winner of the 45th Kimura Ihei Award (2019), Japan's most respected honour for photography.
His work entered the permanent collection of Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, following his solo exhibition there in 2014.
Yokota's practice radically explores the materiality of photography itself — through rephotography, chemical manipulation, analogue darkroom processes, and physical intervention — producing images that hover between document and hallucination, between memory and erasure.
His photobooks, including site/cloud, Matter/Burn Out, and Broken Mirrors 2020, are now considered landmarks of contemporary photobook culture.

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