The theme is "Onsen" (hot springs). Yusuke Yamatani's first photo book in three years is the first publication for Flotsam Books.

Everyone loves hot springs. Among them, those that exist in nature and are not maintained are called "open-air hot springs. A photographer who loves such hot springs and has been walking around the country for the past 15 years as part of his life's work, pointing his lens at them and documenting them, has been a photographerYusuke YamataniIt is.

Yusuke Yamatani sometimes goes alone, sometimes with family or friends, and sometimes recruits a companion through a zine or SNS to soak in the same hot spring.

For the release of "ONSEN I," the first photo book in three years based on the theme of hot springs, we have created a new book entitled "ONSEN Ⅰ," which was published by "ONSEN" (Onsen), a photography studio in Daitabashi, Tokyo, with which we have long had a close relationship.flotsam booksThis will be the first publication for .

An advance release of the photo book and an exhibition event will be held at "Flotsam Books" starting Friday, March 17. At this point, they are already planning to publish "ONSEN II" and "ONSEN III" as well.

The communication of people around hot springs and waterside places is described in "Nihon Shoki" and "Manyoshu," and as Yusuke Yamatani continued to take photographs at hot springs, he began to listen to the atomic age and to think about a different planet beyond time and space. What you feel from the photographs in the 64 pages of "ONSEN I" is up to you.