PHOTOGRAPHY ZINES AND BOOKS NO: 65

404 Not Found Issue 02 by Yusuke Nagata

Who?

Yusuke Nagata is a Tokyo based Japanese photographer. He does a lot in the street photography community from darkroom workshops to zines. He is the founder of Tokyo SPC and has done a visual interview with us as well. Also, this is the second issue of this zine series. You can read about the first here.

What?

Quite different from the first issue that was essentially a road zine to Hokkaido. Issue 02 explores shopping districts of Tokyo and Taipei late into the night. This is becoming an annual project so accordingly Issue 03 will be out in 2025.

Made entirely of black and white film photography, this issue I feel finds him purely in his comfort zone of street photography getting up close and capturing the chaos of it all…

Why?

I like that he included a print out with the zine explaining the motivation. I do like afterwords but tend to loathe captions of the photos themselves. Feel it steals any chance for the viewer to bring their imagination to the work by instead forcing only the photographer’s intentions. So with this I naturally sat with the whole zine before I got to his write up. I will use his words from it to explain his motivation for the project:

“The Term ‘404 Not Found’ is an error code that appears when a URL has been deleted or no longer exists. It’s like trying to photograph the crazy Halloween scenes in Shibuya, but now, with street drinking banned, Shibuya has lost that chaos. Or wanting to capture Tokyo’s old shopping districts, only to find many of them have been wiped away by redevelopment. That’s exactly what ‘404 Not Found’ feels like, and that’s why I believe there’s value in capturing the real, present moment that can’t be found online- and why I continue to take photos.” 

Details.

  • W182 × H257mm(B5)
  • 66 pages
  • Published in Sep 2024
  • Printed in Japan
  • ISBN  978-4-911140-04-8

Where?

The zine can be purchased from his website here for 30$. He has some other bundle options that include an 11×14 darkroom print from the zine for around 150$. A steal really, the details are below:

All prints are signed and numbered.
A hologram-secured Certificate of Authenticity Included.

  • Printed by Yusuke Nagata in Tokyo, Japan
  • Print Year: 2024
  • Medium: Silver Gelatin Print
  • Paper: ILFORD MULTIGRADE FB CLASSIC
  • Size: 11×14 inch
  • Edition of 10 each

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Thanks to our guest for his submissions, it is a really cool thing to be able to share zines with you all. And remember, this is open to everyone. If you would like to have your zines or books featured then all you have to do is mail me. Hopefully there will be plenty more of you who want to get your books and zines out there to the world. Another installment will be coming soon.

Thanks,

JCH