The starting point was a shared journey through Japan in September 2025. Osaka, the art islands, Kyoto and Tokyo each had a different rhythm. The book gives those places—and the people moving between them—a form that can be revisited together.

It is made for family, with enough context to bring someone along who was not there. The small scenes matter as much as the landmarks: a street at dusk, a meal, a turn in the day that stayed with us.

A personal travel story / September 2025

Editing is where a collection of images becomes a journey. Photographs are grouped by place and experience, then paired with short narratives. A busy sequence can lead into one quiet photograph; the next spread can bring the story forward again.

The visual language stays restrained: generous white space, clear typography and room for the photographs. The open-book mockup explores how that pacing might feel as a physical object, using pages from the current reading edition.

Selection / sequencing / writing / layout

The current result is a reading edition of Japan — Zwischen Bühne und Alltag. The photographs and writing now live in one continuous editorial sequence, with a cover that keeps the title simple and lets a moment from the journey speak.

The next step is the physical edition: checking the final pages, paper and print finish. The mockups throughout this page imagine that future object on a creative studio desk, using the current cover and a selection of spreads from across the journey.

Current state / reading edition · print still ahead