Vertigo

Daisuke Yokota's Vertigo is a photobook built around a bodily sensation rather than a place or subject: the disorientation of being off balance.

Across 96 hardcover pages, more than ninety black-and-white photographs, including two foldouts, move through close-up and aerial views processed with the grain, chemical staining, and re-photography Yokota is known for, evoking reversed sleep cycles, jet lag, and fragmented memory rather than depicting them directly. Edited by Yokota with Kohei Oyama and designed by Goshi Uhira, the book was published in Tokyo in 2014 as the first title from the imprint Newfave, in an edition of 500 copies, and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year award.

Yokota (b. 1983) works across an unusually large and fast-moving bibliography of self-published and small-press books, most made by physically degrading his negatives and prints; Vertigo is an early example of that process applied to a single, sustained physical sensation rather than a specific place, as in later books like Site or Matter.