The Hat Man — Ed. I
Street & travel photography, France × Japan
Fifty copies. No more. Each one is printed by hand on a Japanese risograph — a stencil press that lays ink down the way a screen print does, one colour at a time, in flat saturated passes that sink into the paper instead of sitting on top of it.
The register drifts by a fraction of a millimetre from one sheet to the next, the ink catches differently, the grain never falls twice the same way. No two copies are identical: each one has its own texture, its own offsets, its own small accidents — its own life.
Risography
孔版印刷 — kōhan insatsuInvented in Japan, the risograph is a stencil duplicator: for every colour, the machine burns a master sheet, wraps it around a rotating drum filled with soy-based ink, and pushes the paper through. Closer to screen printing than to a photocopier, and just as physical.
Every colour is a separate pass through the press. Every pass is fed by hand. Where two inks overlap they mix on the paper rather than in a file, and where they miss each other by a hair, the image is left with an edge no digital print can imitate.
That imprecision is the point. It is what turns an edition of fifty into fifty separate objects.
No two copies are ever the same.Each one has its own texture, its own offsets, its own small accidents — its own life…
Yvon Awuklu
The object
Signed, numbered, shipped by hand- Edition50 numbered copies
- PrintingRisograph, printed by hand
- Format150 × 210 mm
- Pages25 pages
- PaperUncoated 120 gsm
- FinishNumbered by hand
Order a copy
€29.99 + shipping included. Your copy is numbered out of 50, wrapped and sent from my studio. Payment is handled securely — you will get a confirmation and a shipping date by email.
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An edition printed by hand costs more than it will ever return. A donation — any amount — goes straight into paper, ink and press time, and keeps the next edition possible.
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