Akihito YoshidaThe Screw

Photographs: Akihito Yoshida

Text: Shinji Ishii

Publisher: Three Books

96 pages

Pictures: 50

Year: 2023

Price: € 130

Scorching flames, rising black smoke, beads of sweat streaming down sooty faces, men's angry voices echoing through the air, and the smell of fuel oil. Since my first visit to Bangladesh in 2012, I have repeatedly visited and photographed the people who make the "screws" of ships. They worked in a small, dark, cave-like workshop. There, adults and children worked together to create a cold, hard metal by pouring molten red liquid, like magma, into the pitch-black ground, which was covered with iron sand. It was like a world of creation myths. Stillness and motion, softness and hardness, light and shadow, regeneration and destruction. The screw is produced using the tremendous labor of the workers as fuel. Again and again, I was absorbed by the tremendous energy swirling in this small workshop and gazed at them as if devouring them. Akihito Yoshida

Including a novel written by Shinji Ishii for the book.

Softcover on a beautiful printed paper, 29,5 x 41 cm, first edition, Text in English, black and white photographs, Each book is individually produced by pasting a risograph print onto the cover and stamping the title. Just as all the screws depicted in this book are handcrafted. Designed by Tamon Yahagi. In very good condition.