Gunkanjima Vital Mud an independent archive and publisher

an independent archive and publisher

Iraq and Kuwait

Books by Void

the resulting images by Araki are haunting yet playful

constructed between 1968-1972

Gunkanjima Vital Mud an independent archive and publisherFirst edition of Gunkanjima by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre (2013) First impression Large format hardback in as new condition Signed by the artists to title page No markings Published by Steidl About Hashima is a small island located off the extreme southwest coast of Japan, about ten miles from Nagasaki. Its darkwarship like silhouette earned it the nickname of Gunkanjima (battleship island). During the wave of industrialisation in the nineteenth