Burning In The Stone IV (Signed)

The fourth volume in Wan Chaofan's series of works, "Burning In The Stone."

This book contains photographs taken by Wan during his travels. He recounts feeling both novelty and familiarity in the landscapes that appeared before him, and that he pressed the shutter button as if moved by them. Time spent among the sea, mountains, forests, and wind. Behind these seemingly tranquil landscapes lie unspoken emotions.

The title "Burning In The Stone" suggests a state where a flame burns quietly yet fiercely within a seemingly cold and hard stone. Emotions lying beneath silence. Landscapes that, despite being in unfamiliar lands, feel as if they have always existed within him. Wan captures in his photographs the helplessness, frustration, familiarity, and fluctuations evoked by such scenes.

At the end of the book, two phrases are quoted: "一切景語皆情語" (All landscape language is emotional language) and "此時无声勝有声" (Sometimes silence speaks louder than words). To describe a landscape is to describe an emotion, and there are times when silent moments resonate more deeply than spoken words. This collection of works explores emotions burning in silence through the landscapes of travel.

[Title] Burning In The Stone IV / 在石头内部燃烧 第四卷
[Publisher] Wan Publishing
[Publication Date] June 30, 2026
[Pages] -
[Size] Approx. 335 x 150 x 5mm / 280g
[Format] Softcover
[Language] Japanese, English, Chinese
[Title Reading] Burning in the Stone 4
[Author/Editor, etc.] Wan Chaofan/Author, Wan Chaofan/Editing and Book Design, Tang Yayi/Editing and Book Design, John Sypal/English Translation, Satoshi Wada/Proofreading
[Printing] STAIRS LAB/Printing
[Printer] EPSON PX-S7090X
[Paper] Takeo Tablo
[ISBN] -
[Condition] New
[Accessories] 1 exhibition DM postcard
[Limited Edition] Limited to 50 copies
[Featured In] -
[Related Exhibition] Wan Chaofan "Burning In The Stone IV" (TOTEM POLE PHOTO GALLERY, June 30 - July 5, 2026)

Wan Chaofan (宛超凡) 1991-

Born in Gu'an County, Hebei Province, China. Photographer, co-founder of STAIRS PRESS.

In 2021, completed a doctoral program in fine arts at Tokyo University of the Arts. While walking through cities, rivers, and marginal landscapes, he photographs places where personal memories and the passage of time in the land overlap. He continuously produces, publishes, and exhibits photobooks, and presents his own works as limited-edition booklets and photobooks.

Major works include "The River Knows Everything — Arakawa," "Huangpu River," "By the Water," and the "Burning In The Stone" series.

Major awards include the KAWABA NEW-NATURE PHOTO AWARD (Kawaba Village Award) (2016), the Canon Photographers' Session Canon Award (2016), the 44th New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Award (2021), the 24th Miki Jun Award (2023), and the Sagamihara Photo New Talent Encouragement Award (2023).

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