3AM by AM projects [SIGNED BY DAISUKE YOKOTA & HIROSHI TAKIZAWA]

コンクリートに常に触れられる果てしなく続く橋、耳障りなノイズの交響曲、男女間の境界線を曖昧かつ無関係にさせるスペクトル、生から死への移り変わり、孤独を忘れようとするための一瞬の力や忘却を探し求めている人々を包み込む、手軽に入手できる贅沢品から人間に至るまで、あらゆるものが売りに出されている場所で親密性を探すこと、リアリティのしくみそのものを追い求めること-

フランス人フォトグラファー、ティアン・ドアン・ナ・チャンパサック(Tiane Doan na Champassak)、タイ人フォトグラファー、オリヴィエ・ピン=ファット(Olivier Pin-Fat)、トーマス・ヴァンデンベルグ(Thomas Vandenberghe)、イタリア人フォトグラファー、ローラ・ロダリ(Laura Rodari)、日本人フォトグラファーの横田大輔と滝沢広らからなる写真家集団「AM Projects」が、1冊の写真集を制作するため出版社「Akina Books」のアレックス・ボチェット(Alex Bocchetto)と共にバンコクに集まった。撮影に1ヵ月、制作に1年を要した本書は、他に類を見ないような実験的共同プロジェクトであり、出版を手がけたAkina BooksとAM Projectsとの長きに渡るコラボレーションはサイケデリックな体験を見る者にもたらす。

2016年、バンコク。シンプルで野心的なアイデアを携え「AM Projects」チームはアレックス・ボチェットと共に1ヵ月の撮影旅行に旅立った。人混みの中やチャイナタウンの地獄のような混沌、バンコクの繁華街の真ん中に撮影の拠点を置いたが、写真家たちはサイアムスクエア、シーロム、スクンビット、リバーサイドなどに散らばり、各々の持つ視点に従い旅を始めた。氷工場、コンクリートの橋、郊外、ゴーゴーバー(ナイトクラブ)、地下道、外国人の溜まり場、廃れてしまったかつての高級団地、ホテルの部屋やロビー、ホール、混み合った夜の市場、荒廃した売春宿、止まらない汗、そして明け方の裏通り…

Never-ending bridges where concrete is always within touch, the noise symphonic in cacophony, the spectrum between male and female which blurs distinctions and renders them irrelevant, the transition between life and death, the search of intimacy in a place where everything can be found for sale, from humans to a cheap luxury which envelops the ones, searching for a moment of power or oblivion to forget their loneliness, their search for the very fabric of reality.

Tiane Doan na Champassak, Olivier Pin-Fat, Thomas Vandenberghe, Laura Rodari, Daisuke Yokota, Hiroshi Takizawa with publisher Alex Bocchetto met in Bangkok to collaborate towards a collective photobook.
1 month of shooting, 1 year in the making, 3AM is an experimental collective project unlike any others, a psychedelic experience brought to you by the long-term collaboration between AKINA and AM Projects.

Bangkok 2016. Following a simple yet ambitious idea, AM Projects sailed for a collective shooting of one month in the same city, with AKINA publisher Alex Bocchetto tagging along with them. HQ was set up in the crowded and infernal chaos of Chinatown, downtown Bangkok, but soon the collective dispersed through Siam square, Silom, Sukhumvit, the Riverside, each photographer setting their own personal quest and following their own individual visions. Ice factories, concrete bridges, the city’s outskirts, go-go bars, the underground, the over-belly, expat hang-outs, abandoned luxury complexes, hotel rooms, lobbies and halls, crowded night markets, run-down brothels, the sweat, always the sweat, and the empty back-streets at dawn.

 

by Daisuke Yokota , Hiroshi Takizawa , Laura Rodari , Olivier Pin-Fat , Thomas Vandenberghe , Tiane Doan na Champassak

REGULAR PRICE ¥8,800  (tax incl.)

softcover with double sided dust-jacket
196 pages
240 x 330 mm
color
2017

SIGNED BY DAISUKE YOKOTA AND HIROSHI TAKIZAWA

published by AKINA BOOKS

SOLD OUT PICTURES by Ken Miller
SOLD OUT BERLIN by Daisuke Yokota [SPECIAL EDITION]
SOLD OUT BERLIN by Daisuke Yokota [SIGNED]
SOLD OUT 100 BILDER by Daisuke Yokota, Hiroshi Takizawa & Yoshi Kametani [SIGNED]
POSTERS UNTITLED, 2014 by Daisuke Yokota [EXCLUSIVE]
SOLD OUT TARATINE by Daisuke Yokota
SOLD OUT ABSTRACTS by AM projects
SOLD OUT ABSTRACTS by AM projects [SIGNED BY ALL 5 PHOTOGRAPHERS]
SOLD OUT ABSTRACTS by AM projects [SIGNED BY DAISUKE YOKOTA]
SOLD OUT CELL TYPE A by Daisuke Yokota
SOLD OUT CELL TYPE B by Daisuke Yokota
SOLD OUT CELL TYPE C by Daisuke Yokota
SOLD OUT CELL TYPE D by Daisuke Yokota
SOLD OUT STRATUM by Hiroshi Takizawa [SIGNED]
SOLD OUT THE FATHER OF POP DANCE by Tiane Doan Na Champassak
SOLD OUT THE STRIP by Tiane Doan na Champassak [SIGNED]
SOLD OUT SPLEEN AND IDEAL by Tiane Doan na Champassak