SADOGASHIMA, Daisuke Yokota
SADOGASHIMA by Daisuke Yokota
佐渡島, 横田大輔
Exploration of the island of SADO, former banishment island for no-return prisoners and also goldmine under the EDO period, through the eyes of Daisuke Yokota.
A trip as double exploration, historic land and photographic materials.
First release of works on photographic materials of year 2019.
Self Published, handmade, 2019
Size (mm): 266 (H) x 200 (Lg)
348 pages
Digital printing
Hard cover, Japanese (nylon wire) binding
Handwritten title and signed.
Books directly provided by Daisuke Yokota himself.
The price is Daisuke's list price.
Daisuke Yokota was born in 1983.
He graduated from the Nippon Photography Institute in Tokyo.
His work questions the relationship between memory, images and sensations. He draws from his personal photographic archives and manipulates them chemically, working layer upon layer as layers of consciousness and memories. He questions photography as a material of memory that is both visual and sonic, often referring to the concepts of echo and reverberations.
In 2015, Yokota's work was exhibited at the Shashin: Photography from Japan festival in New York as well as at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston during the exhibition In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11. The same year, he participated in the group exhibition Another Language: 8 Japanese Photographers organized by Simon Baker at the Rencontres d’Arles. As a winner of the Outset I Unseen Exhibition Fund (2013), in 2014 he presented his work in a monographic exhibition at the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam