Signed, New, Special Edition
Welcome 2 My Room
Each copy comes with one Polaroid print. Customers can choose their preferred image from the image list.
This is a completely new edition of Maki's series "Welcome 2 My Room" (originally published in 2010), limited to 100 copies.
On each page, the white margins of Maki's Polaroid photographs contrast sharply with the entirely black background, giving the images a strange weight. Although shot on analog Polaroid film, Maki has never physically met the women appearing in the photographs. They are models, sex workers on adult-only cam sites, engaging in shows and performances either one-on-one or before a larger virtual audience. Situated on a moral borderline, "Welcome 2 My Room" explores questions of presence and absence, the public and the private, performance and permanence.
“The starting point of this series of portraits was the discovery in 2006 of a website in the Philippines. A peep show featuring a chat and webcam. Girls ad sometimes boys working at home alone, or in groups sharing “studios.” […]
Sometimes connections and affinities were created, at other times it was ‘just business.’ All those gazes, all those stories intertwined, including mine...
After a while I started taking pictures of them on my computer screen with my polaroid camera. At that time I used to regularly take pictures of the people I met, so I thought why not through a computer screen…
The exchanges and discussions happened to be intense. Laying bare feelings, lives, bodies… Sincerity meets guile. And of course there’s the money…”
― from Maki's foreword
$13.99
- -Book Size
- 255 × 185 mm
- -Pages
- 176 pages, 358 images
- -Binding
- Softcover, Slipcase
- -Publication Year
- 2026
- -Language
- English, Japanese, French
- -Limited Edition
- 100
- -ISBN
- 978-4-910244-51-8
