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Daisuke Yokota is one of the most talked-about young Japanese photographers. He’s been praised for his meticulous approach to photographic experimentation, combined at times with visceral performances and his willingness to continuously test the limits of photography.
Born in 1983 in Saitama, north of Tokyo, Yokota is part of a generation of young artists using photography in subversive new ways. His approach combines multiple rephotographing and printing, and applying acid or flame to the end results. He is working out of, and pushing forward, a Japanese tradition of photobook-making and performance that harks back to the visceral experimentation of the Provoke generation and the work of the relentless photobook-maker Daido Moriyama.
His process is meticulous to the point of obsessive. He shoots on a compact digital camera, prints and rephotographs the results on medium-format film, then prints them again several times using heat and light to mark or distort the images. He stands out because his results tend transcend the sum of the parts. Or, to put it more brutally, his creative process does not appear more interesting than the results. The idea, execution, and final work are all of an equal and often mysterious intensity.
- Sean O’Hagan, The Guardian
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Daisuke Yokota on the influence of Aphex Twin on his work:
“There’s a sense that you can’t really see him, and this confusion is interesting to me. Then, to speak about his music, there’s a lot of experimentation with delay, reverb, and echo, which is playing with the way you perceive time. Of course, there’s no time in a photograph, but I thought about how to apply this kind of effect, or filter, to photography.”
BACKYARD series
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THEY and WATER SIDE series
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NOCTURNES series
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FOSSIL series
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SITE series
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p.s. Hey. Today Chilly Jay Chill aka the amazing writer/author Jeff Jackson shares the work of artist/photographer Daisuke Yokota with us. I don't know about you, obviously, but I didn't know this work before Jeff/CJC made the post, and it's a pretty great discovery. Pore over the selection today, please, and let Jeff know what happens to you when you do that. Thank you all, and extra-special thanks to you, Jeff. ** Jamie McMorrow, High powered good morning to you, Jamie. Great, thank you kindly, about the guest-post. I'm excited. Yes, hard work becomes my lot in life again today, but enough of my brain cells have healed that I think I can handle it. The deadline is that we now have to finish the TV series package. Gisele has three trusted people reading the scripts, and I suppose there'll be further revisions, and we have to write the introduction and schmooze texts that go with them. We have a meeting with the producer today, and I guess we'll know after that if we're near the finish line or not. Cool that you watched all the fireworks vids! The sky-ladder thing is insane, right? The guy who made that is a Chinese artist who primarily makes thing with fireworks, and this stuff is pretty mind-blowing in general. And the rest, yeah, agreed, thank you. I'm really happy that we share the fascination. The Silencio screening went really well. Great response and some excellent opportunities on the horizon because of it, which was why we did the event. Thanks, pal! Nail Wednesday, and I know you will. Love, me. ** Dóra Grőber, Hi, Dora! Cool. Yeah, Clarence Major is a really amazing writer but he's kind of weirdly overlooked these days, I don't know why. The work is progressing, yeah. I'll just be really glad when we can finally send the package off, I think this weekend or just after, and I won't have to think about it for six weeks. The Silencio thing was really good. I guess you know it's David Lynch's club. He designed the whole place, and I think owns it. It's cool, but it's not as wild and weird as I had imagined. It's very much a club for rich people, and it's very chic. Very nice, but not a place I can imagine hanging out or anything. And since the membership is super expensive, I don't think I will. What happened between morning and night for you today? ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. Yeah, I figured. Cool that you're big on Major. Thanks for the link to the Philip Hensher piece. I like his pieces, so I'm looking forward to it. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. It went well. It was essentially a press screening for journalists and industry folks, and the response was fantastic, and I think it'll lead to some good things, which was the point. Ah, okay, about the hopefully very short further delay. I'll watch that Leckey film as soon as I get some breathing room. Thank you, man. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Great, great thanks for the post. Like I told you, his work is completely new to me, and I'm quite blown away. Yeah, Major doesn't get anywhere near the attention he should, and I feel that, with the rise in experimentation in US lit, he's an obvious forebearer and unique writer who logically should be lauded and read far more. Kind of strange. The screening went very well. Like I said above, it was for press, basically, and it was almost all journalists and some film festival/industry people. It's a very small theater, 28 seats plus some folding chairs for overflow. The q&a seemed good. Silencio, as I was saying to Dora, is nice but it's very oriented towards the rich and powerful. It's situated way underground, which is cool, and Lynch did the decor and furniture, which is kind of tastefully Lynch-like but awfully tasteful. It's cool, don't get me wrong, but my expectations that Lynch's association would make it strange in some interesting way were kind of dashed. Oh, thank you so much about the possible screening thing! You go to Berlin so soon! I'm hoping you got a ton of recommended things to do. I'm imagine you have. How long are you there? Is it just straight to Berlin and then back home? That's exciting! ** Misanthrope, It is a nice title, right? I don't know Key & Peele. I'm so out of it about States phenoms and stuff. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. I finally had eyes enough to read your haikus, and they were divine, my friend. Major is kind of under the radar these days. He was much better known ten, twenty years ago. I can only imagine that the new job has thrown your schedule into chaos. I hope it's going well. Is it? I blabbed a bit about the screening and Silencio up above. It went really well. Take care, pal. ** Bill, Hi. The Ladies Party, yikes, yes, I really have to read that. Mr. Ewert! ** Okay. Enjoy Jeff's lustrous and far more post today, people. Thank you. See you tomorrow.