Daisuke

Yokota

Daisuke Yokota (Japan, 1983) is a Tokyo-based experimental photographer. He works with a variety of digital and analogue techniques, including cameraless photography and darkroom tools. In 2013, Yokota was named Foam Talent. Three years later, in 2016, he was announced as the tenth winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award.

Daisuke Yokota graduated from the Nippon Photography Institute in 2003. In 2008 he received an honourable mention in the 31st Canon New Cosmos of Photography, and he won the grand prix of “1_Wall Award”. He is represented by G/P Gallery in Tokyo. He has several publications to his name, including various self-published books and zines and such recent publications as Site/Cloud (Artbeat Publishers, 2013), Untitled (Goliga Books 2013) and Vertigo (Newfave books 2014). In May 2015 he won the inaugural John Kobal residency award for an emerging artist at Photo London. He is part of the international artist collective amprojects.org and of the Japanese creative group mp1.jp.

Image of the exhibition Site/Cloud by Daisuke Yokota at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
Installation shot of Site / Cloud by Daisuke Yokota at FoamFoam. Photo by Christian van der Kooy
Installation shot of the exhibition Matter by Daisuke Yokota at Foam in 2017
Installation shot of the exhibition Matter by Daisuke Yokota at Foam in 2017Foam. Photo by Christian van der Kooy
Image of the exhibition Site/Cloud by Daisuke Yokota at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
Installation shot of Site / Cloud by Daisuke Yokota at FoamFoam. Photo by Christian van der Kooy
Installation shot of the exhibition Matter by Daisuke Yokota at Foam
Installation shot of the exhibition Matter by Daisuke Yokota at Foam in 2017Foam. Photo by Christian van der Kooy
Daisuke Yokota in Foam Magazine #36: Talent

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Foam Talent 2013

In 2013, Daisuke Yokota was one of the 16 selected artists for Foam Talent, the annual open call for young photographic talent.

His series Nocturnes consists of a selection of black-and-white photographs, oozing a dream-like atmosphere. The photographs are a result of an extensive technical process: Yokota rephotographs existing prints and plays with developing time when processing the film. He then scans the works before layering in Photoshop to create the final image.

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Foam Magazine #36: Talent © Foam Magazine. Cover image by David Benjamin Sherry
[2016] Untitled from the series Color Photographs 2015 © Daisuke Yokota

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