Labyrinths.

Photographs by Edward Osborn.

Self-Published, 2024. 108 pp., 58 images, 9¾x9".

SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE!

Made over 30 years of living in and visiting Japan, Edward Osborn’s Labyrinths oscillates between a surreal, dreamlike atmosphere and the contemporary landscape of present-day Japan. Employing light, texture, reflection, and repetition, the photographer creates a nearly cinematic experience, immersing the viewer in his photographs as they unfold in book form.

Published in a limited edition of 250 copies, Labyrinths is offset printed in black-and-white on high-quality 157gsm matte paper with a textured, flexibound cover.

"… We who grew up in Tokyo are familiar with sad ghost stories since childhood. These days Tokyo is considered to be one of the most colorful and lively cities in the world. It may be true, but we know that the real landscape of Tokyo is hidden behind that garish surface. Edward Osborn’s first photobook “Labyrinths” successfully captures the true essence of Tokyo. He spent many years in Tokyo, so he knows what the real Tokyo is. He sees ghosts in the metro, small izakaya along narrow alleyways, and even in the busy Shibuya Crossing. In Tokyo, those medieval ghosts are living with us, breathing behind us, and murmuring beside us. Edward somehow succeeded in being with them, as though he were a solitary mystic with his camera."

— Yasuhiro Ogawa, Photographer

"Osborn’s images capture the rhythms of a city constantly reinventing itself, where past and future brush up or collide against one another. His book Labyrinths is comprised of moments both fleeting or profound, and leaves the reader to choose which. Osborn’s Tokyo is a maze of shifting perspectives, drawing viewers into the subtle poetry of urban life."

— Ivan Vartanian, Publisher-Author-Editor at Goliga Books (Japan)

"Ed Osborn’s photos pull you into a vast city, or is it a dreamscape? - exploring its light and lack thereof, figures real and perhaps imagined, what’s solid and what’s transient, and the seen and the half-seen and the unseen. His photos balance, and sometimes let totter, a seemingly impossible complexity of figures, structures, fragments, vistas, and motion. The photos in Labyrinths have a wonderful delicacy and deliver mystery, insight., and delight, in a flow, filled with shifts and surprises, that you will want to return to again and again."

— Allen Wheatcroft, Photographer

Purchasers can also gain temporary access to a cinematic video of stills from the book. To do so contact the author directly at his website: www.edwardosborn.com

Cat# ZK710S Softbound [Signed] $65.00
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