Published by Lannoo in 2012, Where We Met brings together photographs by Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto and drawings by Belgian artist Arpaïs du Bois. Its subject is not a literal meeting place but an encounter between two practices. Across 128 pages, images from different hands are placed in sustained conversation, finding common ground in silence, vulnerability, and the transient character of existence.

Yamamoto’s distilled photographs and du Bois’s drawings are presented as parallel forms of attention. Rather than assigning one medium an illustrative role, the book allows each to retain its independence while establishing correspondences through sequence and juxtaposition. The approximately 100 colour illustrations create a measured rhythm in which distinctions between observation, recollection, and invention remain productively unsettled. Meaning accumulates through proximity: a photograph may alter the emotional register of a drawing, just as a drawn mark may redirect the reading of a photograph.

Introductions by Dan Leers, Pauline Vermare, and Claire Gilman place the collaboration within photographic and drawing-centered institutional perspectives. Text appears in English, Japanese, and French, extending the book’s cross-cultural structure beyond its images. The result is both a two-person artist book and a study in how editorial arrangement can create affinities without erasing difference.

For collectors, Where We Met merits attention as a carefully defined collaboration rather than a conventional single-photographer monograph. Its significance resides in the integration of photography, drawing, critical framing, and sequencing into one coherent work. The hardcover publication was issued as a limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies—a documented aspect of its production that complements, rather than substitutes for, the artistic specificity of the project.