In his first photography book, Soi 1, the Japanese photographer Kotaro Yokomizo creates a visual chronicle of the city of his heart, Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Walking every day through the many soi (a Thai word for small streets) of Chiang Mai, Yokomizo uses his camera to capture the atmospheres, the oddities, the textures, the contrasts and the scenes of Chiang Mai. His photographs are the testimony of a time and a place, of the singularity of the city but also of its similarities with other places. The photographer is interested in the distance between things, in human nature, but also in the scars left by history.