LONE GENTLEMEN PUBLISHING
Books & Photography
Available from art bookstores and museums including:
FRANCE / EUROPE: Paris: Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Le Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Le Monte en l’Air, Le Bal Books, Plac’Art Photo,
Un Regard Moderne, La Halle Saint-Pierre, La Nouvelle Chambre Claire, Librairie Parallèles, Librairie Erasmus
Brussels: Tipi Bookshop, Tulitu - Lausanne: Librairie HuMus
UK: The Photographers' Gallery, Donlon Books, Artwords Bookshop, Edicola, Housman's Bookshop, Magma, Print Culture
USA: Printed Matter (New York), Skylight Books (Los Angeles), 50 Watts Books (Philadelphia)
AUSTRALIA: Metropolis Bookshop
KOREA: New Medium
Worldwide distribution via Antenne Books
LG013 - The Amorphous Man-Statue
Limited Edition : Signed Print / Book / Short Film
The Amorphous Man-Statue awakens after a thousand years in a garden of monsters,
populated with eerie creatures and medieval beasts.
Limited edition of 10 copies.
Hand-numbered and signed.
A3 Photographic Print on Oribi Straw 295 gsm paper.
A3 Metallic Gold Ink Risograph on Ultra Black 225 gsm paper.
Softcover book, 24 X 16 cm, 20 pages.
Short film.
Published by Lone Gentlemen Publishing.
ISBN: 978-2-9588330-1-5
LG012 - IKIRYŌ 生霊
A mythical being, otherworldly and evanescent, emerges from the core of the earth. This phantom apparition awakens on the volcanic landscape of an Icelandic glacier, haunting the minds of everyone he encounters. Surrender is the only outcome.
Risograph Print Boxset with 5 x A3 prints
Limited edition of 25, hand numbered and signed
Printed with handmade Metallic Silver Riso ink on UltraBlack 185gsm paper by Dizzy Ink
Handmade black boxset with stencilled metallic silver cover
Signed certificate of authenticity
Published by Lone Gentlemen Publishing.
ISBN: 978-2-9565399-9-5
Currently on display at the MEP photography museum bookstore
and the Centre Pompidou museum bookstore in Paris.
LG011 - Posthuman Codex
The world is burning, and the last humans go down fighting. Alchemical symbols and shifting red moons announce the inevitable demise of the world.
An inferno awaits the faceless masses, ignorant to their fate. Strange fantastical creatures of bountiful colours thrive in the posthuman landscape.
An allegory of our world on fire.
Limited edition of 100, hand numbered and signed.
Format: 14.7 x 29.7 cm, 262 pages, hardcover, gold foiling
Published by Lone Gentlemen Publishing.
ISBN: 978-2-9565399-8-8
Distribution by Antenne Books
This is one of the first artist’s books to be created entirely with artificial intelligence.
Posthuman Codex is part of Amélie Ravalec’s first fiction feature film Sumarsólstöður
(in production), also directed with the help of AI.
Official signing for the release of Posthuman Codex at Un Regard Moderne bookstore in Paris, currently on display at the MEP photography museum bookstore, the Centre Pompidou museum bookstore and Le Monte en l’Air bookstore in Paris.
LG010 - London DLR Flipbook
Second instalment in the photographic flipbook series, a journey connecting London’s financial centers, The City and Canary Wharf, via the urban docks of South London.
Format: Flipbook, 15x7 cm, 100 pages, softcover
Limited edition of 100
Released September 2022
ISBN: 978-2-9565399-7-1
Distribution by Antenne Books
LG009 - BUTŌ: The Recurring Torments of the Pugilist
Collectors edition with film
BUTŌ seeks to capture the intensity of the human body in motion, the lithe bodies of dancers Max Cookward and Paul Scott-Bullen colliding against the dense and forceful power of boxer Andrew Downer. Playing with the shadow and the light, ghostly movements and eerie dance, BUTŌ delves into the feverish dreams of a tormented fighter.
Inspired by the traditional Butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, Eikoh Hosoe’s iconic portraits of Mishima in Barakei, William Klein’s Tokyo 1961 Butoh photographs and Shūji Terayama’s Boxer, BUTŌ is a homage to the Japanese avant-garde.
Limited edition of 50, hand numbered and signed.
Includes an exclusive USB card of the 15 minute BUTŌ film.
Format: 100 pages, A3 (29,7 x 42 cm), hardcover.
Printed on Mowhak 148g textured paper.
Embossed hardcover on Winter & Co’s Corvon Mano Red paper.
Printing by Alain Launay at Imprimerie Launay in Paris.
Binding by Masters Bookbinding in the UK.
Published by Lone Gentlemen Publishing.
ISBN: 978-2-9565399-6-4
Released April 2022.
LG008 - BUTŌ: The Recurring Torments of the Pugilist
Standard edition
Format: 11x19.5 cm, 270 pages, softcover
Published by Lone Gentlemen Publishing.
ISBN: 978-2-9565399-5-7
Released November 2021
LG007 - Beneath The Autumn Leaves
“The blossoms, the autumn leaves, the changing skies.”
The beautiful sights of Japanese gardens during the autumn season, in Kyoto, Tokyo and Hakone.
Format: Photobook, 21x15, 72 pages, softcover
Limited edition of 100
Released November 2020
ISBN: 978-2-9565399-1-9
LG006 - Fragments Of The Human Condition
A collection of 240 literary quotes, exploring themes of artistic elevation, creative impulse, desire, human interactions, introspection, with quotes from Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, J.G. Ballard, Charles Baudelaire, Jean Baudrillard, T.C. Boyle, John Burnside, Angela Carter, Mark Z. Danielewski, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, Alan Hollinghurst, Michel Houellebecq, Joris-Karl Huysmans, David Lynch, Jay McInerney, Yukio Mishima, Friedrich Nietzsche, Genesis P-Orridge, Hubert Selby Jr., Lionel Shriver, Donna Tartt, Shuji Terayama, Irvine Welsh, Irvin Yalom and many more.
Illustrated with 47 artworks including Hieronymus Bosch, Andreas Cellarius, Hans Memling, Pieter Bruegel and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Format: Book, 14.8 x 21 cm, 108 pages
Limited edition of 100
ISBN: 978-2-9588330-0-8
Released July 2023
Distribution by Antenne Books
LG005 - Forging Fire
The ghost of industrial past, a colourful photobook documenting a now defunct metal forge and its factory workers in France’s Hauts-de-France region.
Format: Photobook, 21x15, 112 pages, softcover
Limited edition of 100
Released June 2020
ISBN: 978-2-9565399-4-0
LG003 - A Compendium of Marvels
A treasure trove of personal inspiration, a collection of 500 of the most wonderful artworks and photographs from hundreds of artists.
Format: Art book, 21 x 29.7 cm, 40 pages, softcover
Limited edition of 30
Released June 2020
LG004 - Yurikamome Flipbook 新交通ゆりかもめ
A photographic flipbook journey through Tokyo's automated train line, capturing the beauty of the Japanese urban landscape.
Format: Flipbook, 15x7 cm, 100 pages, softcover
Limited edition of 100
Released June 2020
ISBN: 978-2-9565399-3-3
LG002 - Wraiths of New York City
An alternative look at NYC, capturing the wonders and oddities of the city, art, architecture and other strange discoveries across 88 vibrant colour plates.
Format: Photobook, 14.8 x 14.8 cm, 88 pages, softcover
Limited edition of 100
Released June 2020
ISBN: 978-2-9565399-2-6
LG001 - Japan Visions 日本のビジョン
An evocative and colourful journey through the streets of Japan, from Tokyo’s neon lights and underground culture to the ancient beauty of Kyoto’s temples and gardens. Amélie Ravalec’s debut photographic publication captures the country’s odd beauty: android robots, erotic wooden plaques, guillotined dolls and cyberpunk warehouses.
Format: Photobook, 21 x 15 cm, 108 pages, softcover
Limited edition of 300
Released September 2018
ISBN: 978-2-9565399-0-2