Sunlanders by Sean Lotman
Making Japan my adopted home, I set out to document the nation not as it really was, but how it appeared to me in nostalgic dreams, devoid of any contemporary markers like smartphones, laptops, corporate logos, or fashion trends. If anything, I wanted to reveal a lost Japan, a place that is both recognizable and yet totally unfamiliar, existing somewhere temporally between this life and an invisible, unknowable world. Similar to some other countries, especially my own (America), Japan can be like a concept, marketed and distorted and stereotypically interpreted. Sunlanders, like Robert Frank’s The Americans, is an outsider/immigrant’s attempt to wrestle with a country’s purported vision of itself and refashion it as Somewhere Else; a dream can be a truth, albeit an extraordinarily personal one. Unique in its experimental burning and dodging techniques, all of the images from the book are scanned from handmade color darkroom prints, inspired by the Technicolor films of my childhood.
Published by Bemojake in London, 2016, edition of 1000.
All books will be signed by the artist.
NOTE: this edition will ship directly from Kyoto, Japan. Please allow an appropriate amount of time for delivery.
10% discount available when all three Sean Lotman editions are purchased together. Discount will show in your cart.
Making Japan my adopted home, I set out to document the nation not as it really was, but how it appeared to me in nostalgic dreams, devoid of any contemporary markers like smartphones, laptops, corporate logos, or fashion trends. If anything, I wanted to reveal a lost Japan, a place that is both recognizable and yet totally unfamiliar, existing somewhere temporally between this life and an invisible, unknowable world. Similar to some other countries, especially my own (America), Japan can be like a concept, marketed and distorted and stereotypically interpreted. Sunlanders, like Robert Frank’s The Americans, is an outsider/immigrant’s attempt to wrestle with a country’s purported vision of itself and refashion it as Somewhere Else; a dream can be a truth, albeit an extraordinarily personal one. Unique in its experimental burning and dodging techniques, all of the images from the book are scanned from handmade color darkroom prints, inspired by the Technicolor films of my childhood.
Published by Bemojake in London, 2016, edition of 1000.
All books will be signed by the artist.
NOTE: this edition will ship directly from Kyoto, Japan. Please allow an appropriate amount of time for delivery.
10% discount available when all three Sean Lotman editions are purchased together. Discount will show in your cart.
Making Japan my adopted home, I set out to document the nation not as it really was, but how it appeared to me in nostalgic dreams, devoid of any contemporary markers like smartphones, laptops, corporate logos, or fashion trends. If anything, I wanted to reveal a lost Japan, a place that is both recognizable and yet totally unfamiliar, existing somewhere temporally between this life and an invisible, unknowable world. Similar to some other countries, especially my own (America), Japan can be like a concept, marketed and distorted and stereotypically interpreted. Sunlanders, like Robert Frank’s The Americans, is an outsider/immigrant’s attempt to wrestle with a country’s purported vision of itself and refashion it as Somewhere Else; a dream can be a truth, albeit an extraordinarily personal one. Unique in its experimental burning and dodging techniques, all of the images from the book are scanned from handmade color darkroom prints, inspired by the Technicolor films of my childhood.
Published by Bemojake in London, 2016, edition of 1000.
All books will be signed by the artist.
NOTE: this edition will ship directly from Kyoto, Japan. Please allow an appropriate amount of time for delivery.
10% discount available when all three Sean Lotman editions are purchased together. Discount will show in your cart.