Kizamu Presents : Shunkan of Japan Zine [KZMU001]

This is the debut zine taken from the 'Kizamu Presents' series, more information below >>>

KIZAMU CAPSULE : KZMU001
Shunkan of Japan
Location : Japan
Dates : 3 March - 1 June 2025
[A carved collection of fleeting scenes from across Japan]

28 Photos included.

Limited run of 30.

“Shunkan means ‘a moment’ — a brief point in time that passes quickly, yet stays in memory.”
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“Kizamu” (刻む) means to carve, to engrave, to imprint — a word that quietly honours the impermanence of moments and the lingering traces they leave behind.

KIZAMU is a brand first and foremost as well as a photographic project rooted in the quiet poetry of everyday life. Born from three months of travel across Japan, this body of work captures not just what was seen, but what was felt.

Through a series of limited-edition zines — each guided by a Japanese phrase such as Shunkan (moments in time), Takumi (food), Utsuroi (the beauty of transition), and more, — KIZAMU seeks to hold space for the ephemeral.

These zines will explore themes of memory, movement, respect, solitude, loneliness, joy, routine, reflection and more — not through grand narratives, but through the subtle gestures that define a culture, and a life.

Over the coming months, KIZAMU will unfold as a growing archive of photographic fragments — tactile and tangible — printed with care, designed with minimal elegance, and released in small runs.

Each zine will be a meditation on a single idea, while the final book, will bring them together into one distilled expression: a carved memory of a nation in motion.

KIZAMU is not just a collection of images — it’s an invitation to slow down, to observe deeply, and to feel the weight and lightness of a moment before it passes.

All images taken by Benjamin Lloyd.