Daisuke Yokota

Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota and Tomoko Mukaiyama, the Japanese renowned pianist/performer based in Amsterdam will have their first joint performance In a Landscape on the occasion of <a href="/museum/programme/daisuke-yokota">Matter</a>, Yokota&rsquo;s solo exhibition at Foam.

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As an opening event in the first weekend of <a href="/museum/programme/daisuke-yokota">Matter</a>, the performance In a Landscape takes place in the exhibition room where Tomoko will be playing piano as a part of the installation. Daisuke will create brand new video work for the performance, which makes the collaboration an artistic fusion of music and the photographic medium. The collaboration will be a premiere and only performed on one single night. Due to the size of the piano and the installation, a limited number of tickets (30) is available for the performance.
DAISUKE YOKOTA Born in 1983, Saitama, Yokota majored in photography at Nippon Photography Institute in Tokyo. As the winner of the first Outset | Unseen Exhibition Fund at Unseen Photo Fair 2013, Yokota presented a solo exhibition at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam in 2014. In the same year, his photography book VERTIGO was nominated for the Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. In 2015, he performed at Shashin: Photography from Japan (New York), and participated in In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Another Language&nbsp;(Rencontres d&rsquo;Arles) and Trans-Tokyo / Trans-Photo, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival in China. Yokota's work is included in public collections of Foam, Boston Museum, SFMOMA. In 2016 he received the Foam Paul Huf Award from an international jury. TOMOKO MUKAIYAMA Tomoko Mukaiyama is a Dutch-Japanese pianist, performer and visual artist based in Amsterdam. She studied piano in Tokyo, Indiana (US) and Amsterdam, after which she made her concert debut in 1990. A year later she won the prestigious Dutch Gaudeamus competition. As a pianist, Tomoko is praised for her vivid interpretations of historical as well as modern compositions. Many prestigious orchestras and ensembles throughout the world have engaged her, including the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, the London Sinfonietta, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Her latest performances are La Mode (National Theater in Taichung, 2016), HOME (Saitama Triennle, Japan, 2016) and Jiř&iacute; Kyli&aacute;n&rsquo;s Tar and Feathers (Opera Garnier, Paris, 2016). Performance by: Tomoko Mukaiyama, Daisuke Yokota Technical Director: Yutaka Endo (LUFTZUG) Organized by Sawako Fukai (SW.), G/P gallery and Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam This event is made possible by Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation and Fonds Podiumkunsten, G/P gallery, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Luftzug, SW., in kind support by Mr. Rob van Schaik, Mr. Sacha Leong, Mr. Thomas Florestan.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Delta Lloyd, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.&nbsp;

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18 March 2017 20.00 - 20.30 hrs.&nbsp; doors open at 19.30
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TICKETS&nbsp; &euro;20,- regular rate &euro;17,- reduced rate (<a href="/about/memberships" target="_blank">Foam Fan</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/about/memberships" target="_blank">Club Foam</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/about/foam-fund" target="_blank">Foam Fund</a>)
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Daisuke Yokota X Tomoko Mukaiyama

In the exhibition Matter, Foam presents new three-dimensional work by Daisuke Yokota (Saitama, b. 1983).

Three installations revolve around the tactile aspects of photography, in which the outcome of the artwork is not determined by the camera, but by experiments with the material forms of the medium. Previously in his artistic practice Yokota would re-use images that he took years ago, but that keep re-appearing in different ways through various analogue and digital processes. In these new works it's not the image that keeps being reinvented, but the physical photo print and film.&nbsp;
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x298/0f1fbd494f/instalatieshot_daisuke_yokota.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="298" />Installationshot, 2017 &copy;&nbsp;Christian van der Kooy
The artist is at the frontline of a new movement of Japanese experimental photographers. Yokota is working out of, and pushing forward, a Japanese photography tradition that harks back to the intuitive experimentation of the Provoke generation. In this exhibition, Yokota focuses on the aspect of volume and material of photography, pushing the medium and its perception forward into ever more original directions.
FOAM PAUL HUF AWARD Daisuke Yokota was chosen as the winner of the tenth <a href="/talent/foam-paul-huf-award">Foam Paul Huf Award</a>&nbsp;in 2016. He was first featured in the&nbsp;Talent Issue&nbsp;of Foam Magazine in 2013 and works from his&nbsp;Site/Cloud&nbsp;series were the subject of a 2014 solo exhibition at Foam. Yokota lives and works in Japan, where he graduated from the Nippon Photography Institute in 2003. in 2015, Yokota won the Photo London John Kobal Residency Award. He is represented by G/P Gallery, Japan.
<a href="/talent/foam-paul-huf-award">&gt; Read more about the Foam Paul Huf Award</a>
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Delta Lloyd, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.
The exhibition of the Japanese photographer consists of room-filling installations that provide the viewer with new experiences of photography in each one of the three exhibition rooms. One of the installations entails an enlarged print of a film roll directly exposed without interference of the camera. This long trail is draped throughout the exhibition room and waxed on site. In another installation Yokota projects the outcome of darkroom experiments with unorthodox developing processes on the walls. A printer will slowly print these chemical distortions of the negative.
In his latest work&nbsp;Matter / Burn Out, Yokota sets fire to his own installation prints at an abandoned construction site in China. The resulting heaps of burnt material are documented by his camera and the images are recycled into a new autonomous artwork in the installation&nbsp;Matter / Vomit. The exhibition room filled with burnt matter reflects on the overflow of images we are confronted with on a daily basis and the growing indifference among recipients. Every day vast amounts of images are uploaded onto the Internet, but there are limitations to our ability to digest the incoming information. With this installation Yokota critically reflects on the limitations of our collective memory in today&rsquo;s information society.
Yokota&rsquo;s manipulations are philosophical musings on the medium of photography: &ldquo;I guess it is common to think that the documented image is what is real in photography&rdquo; the artist contemplates in an interview in 2014, &ldquo;but by accentuating the materiality of the film, which by nature is more real than the documented image, the image actually becomes more abstract, and I'm interested in this reversed perspective&rdquo;.
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Daisuke Yokota (born Saitama, 1983) is part of a leading young generation of Japanese photographers. The exhibition presents work from his Site/Cloud series. 

His images in predominantly black and white &ndash; sometimes with a subtle hint of colour &ndash; show a haunting, indefinable world with shadowy, anonymous apparitions and nondescript places, contrasted with sublime, colourful representations of skies and clouds which evoke feelings of timelessness.
During the 2013&nbsp;Unseen Photo Fair, an international jury of young curators selected the Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota and rewarded him with a solo exhibition in Foam. This selection took place as part of the inaugural Outset | Unseen Exhibition Fund.
With his strongly contrasted black-and-white photography, Yokota appears&nbsp;to be working within the Japanese photography tradition. However, a close examination of his work reveals an individual approach in which the elements of process and intervention play an important role.
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x436/fd49cd365b/595_cloud_from_the_series_sitecloud_2013_c_daisuke_yokota__courtesy_of_gp_gallery.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="436" /> Cloud, from the series sitecloud, 2013 &copy; Daisuke Yokota / courtesy of G/P gallery
He uses a combination of digital photography and traditional film to shoot and re-shoot images, which he then manipulates further using other techniques such as photocopying and Photoshop. He has set up an improvised darkroom in his apartment where he can freely experiment with analogue techniques and chemical processes, where chance is also allowed to leave its traces on the final image.
Yokota adds layer upon layer to his work, with each layer offering new potential for the next image, leading to alienated, mysterious and poetic representations of a different sort of world.
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/700x600/55fc3f4da7/installatieshot_template.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="510" /> Installation Daisuke Yokota - Site/Cloud in Foam, 2014 &copy; Christian van der Kooy
The works, taken further and further away from the original image by endless repetition, are partly inspired by electronic musicians such as Aphex Twin. Yokota&nbsp;takes the same ideas of echo, delay and reverberation that influence the sense of time in their music and applies them to his own visual work.
Daisuke Yokota feels that the lack of a sense of duration and perception of time is a weak point in photography, so he experiments with other ways of evoking the aspect of time in his work. For example, by creating images that refer to memories, dreams, or mindscapes that enable the viewer to make a mental journey through time.
<a href="/museum/programme/winner-foam-paul-huf-award-2016" target="_blank">&gt; In 2016, Daisuke Yokota won the tenth annual Paul Huf Award.</a>
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Delta Lloyd, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.
ABOUT DAISUKE YOKOTA 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 &ldquo;1_Wall Award&rdquo;. Yokota 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) and Untitled (Goliga Books 2013). His latest book Vertigo will be published soon (by Newfave books). Daisuke Yokota is a member of the international artists collective AM projects and the Japanese photographers collective mp1.jp. He was responsible for the art direction of the video clip of the Danish singer Majke Voss Romme, aka Broken Twin.
ABOUT OUTSET | UNSEEN EXHIBITION FUND This exhibition has been organised as part of the Outset | Unseen Exhibition Fund, a unique partnership between Unseen Photo Fair and Outset Netherlands, providing a new institutional platform for emerging talent. Scouting the fair before opening hours, each year the selection committee selects one artist exhibiting at Unseen for a solo exhibition at Foam. The selection committee for 2013 comprises Sophie von Olfers (1979, lives and works in Frankfurt), Nathanja van Dijk (1984, lives and works in Amsterdam) and Orit Bulgaru (1978, lives and works in Tel Aviv).

Daisuke Yokota Site/Cloud

Daisuke Yokota, 2016

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Pictures for Purpose

In this workshop get inspired by the experimental work of Daisuke Yokota and discover how you can give new life to an old photograph.

Yokota (Saitama, Japan, 1983) works with an old tradition and looks back to the intuitive experiments from the Provoke-generation. Work that he made years ago are the starting point for new art. Yokota recycles physical prints and edits them to create something new that is not determined with the camera but with other materials. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The workshop starts with a short tour through the exhibition <a href="/museum/programme/daisuke-yokota">Matter</a> where the museum teacher will introduce you to the works of Yokota. Together you will discover his experimental art and be inspired by the volume and material of Yokota&rsquo;s installations. After the tour you go outside to take pictures of interesting compositions and materials which will help you think of new ideas to edit your own photograph. During the workshop you will work with one or more photographs that you take with you to Foam. This could be a photograph with a special memory, one that gives you a certain feeling or a strong emotion. This photograph is the foundation for the rest of the workshop and you are going to edit it in an experimental way. By using several mediums like adding digital images, copying, scanning and physical edits, you will work just like Yokota and discover new interpretations of your first photograph. During the workshop you work with the guidance of our professional museum teacher.&nbsp;The workshop will finish with an evaluation of eachother&rsquo;s work. SIGN UP&nbsp; Please note: this workshop is available in different languages, Dutch and English. The Dutch version will be given on 22 April and the English version will be on 29&nbsp;April. Please make sure you choose the right date when signing up. There are a limited amount of spots available, so be sure to sign up on time. Tickets are only valid for reserved dates. Unfortunately it is not possible to change dates or cancel without charge after your purchase has been made. Foam provides <a href="https://www.olympus.nl/site/nl/c/cameras/om_d_system_cameras/om_d/e_m10/index.html" target="_blank">Olympus OM-D</a> cameras for this workshop. Of course, you are free to use your own camera if you prefer. In that case, remember to bring a fully charged battery, an empty SD card and a transfer cable. The use of your own materials is at your own risk. Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Delta Lloyd, City of Amsterdam, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

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22 April 2017&nbsp;(Dutch) 13.00 - 16.00 hrs.
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29 April 2017&nbsp;(English) 13.00 - 16.00 hrs.
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PRICE&nbsp; &euro;50,00 regular&nbsp; &euro;45,00 Foam Fan/Club/Fund&nbsp; The price includes&nbsp;museum entry and use of materials.</div>

Material experiments with photography

On 16 March 2017 the winner of this year&rsquo;s Foam Paul Huf Award, the international photography award for young artists, will be announced. 

The international jury will meet in Amsterdam on 15 and 16 March to choose a winner from portfolios submitted by one hundred photographers nominated from around the world. The prize is awarded annually by Foam to an international photographic talent under the age of 35 and consists of &euro;20,000 and an exhibition at Foam.&nbsp;
The Paul Huf Award 2017 winner was revealed to be Romain Mader.&nbsp;
<a href="/museum/programme/winner-foam-paul-huf-award-2017">&gt; Read more about 2017's winner</a>
The Foam Paul Huf Award is being organised for the eleventh time. The&nbsp;<a href="#winners">list of former winners</a>&nbsp;is quite impressive. In 2016 the jury chose&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/daisuke-yokota">Daisuke Yokota</a>&nbsp;(Japan) as the tenth winner of the prize, in recognition of his complex, sophisticated practice. On the evening of the announcement of the winner of 2017, Yokota&rsquo;s exhibition&nbsp;Matter&nbsp;will be&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/public-opening-eggleston-yokota">officially opened</a>&nbsp;by Lucy Conticello (chair of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2017 and member of the jury in 2016). 2017 JURY
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<li>Lucy Conticello (chair, director of photography M Le Magazine du Monde, France)</li>
<li>Gregory Barker (publisher, STANLEY/BARKER, London, United Kingdom)</li>
<li>Teju Cole (writer, photographer and photo critic The New York Times Magazine, United States)</li>
<li>Shi Hantao (research director of Shanghai Project, China)</li>
<li>Maddalena Scarzella (gallery manager Galleria Carla Sozzani, Italy)</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x388/8e01b119c3/595jury_foam_paul_huf_award_2017_c_tessa_bosma_thefoofaraw_com.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="388" />Jury Foam Paul Huf Award 2017 &copy; Tessa Bosma / thefoofaraw.com&nbsp;
<a id="winners"></a>PREVIOUS WINNERS 2007:&nbsp;Taryn Simon, Mikhael Subotzky&nbsp; 2008: Pieter Hugo&nbsp; 2009: L&eacute;onie Hampton-Purchas&nbsp; 2010:&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/alexander-gronsky" target="_blank">Alexander Gronsky</a>&nbsp; 2011:&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/raphael-dallaporta">Rapha&euml;l Dallaporta</a> 2012:&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/alex-prager" target="_blank">Alex Prager</a>&nbsp; 2013:&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/onorato-krebs" target="_blank">Taiyo Onorato &amp; Nico Krebs</a>&nbsp; 2014:&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/daniel-gordon" target="_blank">Daniel Gordon</a>&nbsp; 2015:&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/momo-okabe">Momo Okabe</a>&nbsp; 2016:&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/daisuke-yokota">Daisuke Yokota</a>
NOMINATION PROCESS To produce an internationally representative selection Foam approached around twenty nominators in various parts of the world. These nominators, specialists and experts in the field of photography, were each asked to select a number of talented photographers under the age of 35 in their own region.&nbsp; The award can be presented for any type of photography: from documentary or applied photography, to journalistic or independent work. The winner&rsquo;s work must exhibit a clear visual language and distinguish itself in both form and content.
The Foam Paul Huf Award came about as a result of the special relationship Foam had with Dutch photographer Paul Huf (1924-2002). Paul Huf was known for his innovative photographic technique and was personally involved in the establishment of Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam in 2001.
Foam is sponsored by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Delta Lloyd, the City of Amsterdam and the VandenEnde Foundation.

Foam Paul Huf Award 2017

Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota (b. 1983 Saitama) is the winner of the tenth Foam Paul Huf Award 2016. This annual prize, given to a photography talent under 35 years, consists of &euro;20.000 and an exhibition in Foam.

The jury chose Daisuke Yokota from a pool of 97 nominated photographers, from 29 countries worldwide.
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&ldquo;Daisuke Yokota is one of the most innovative and experimental young photographers working in the world today. The jury were unanimous in their decision that he win the 2016&nbsp;Foam Paul Huf Award, in recognition of his complex, sophisticated practice. Yokota has established a formidable reputation as a young artist who has the ability to take photography forward into ever more original directions; from prints, to artist&rsquo;s books, installations, and collaborative performance, and always with a distinctive and unmistakable visual language.&rdquo;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Simon Baker (Tate London, chairman of the jury)
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An exhibition with the work of Daisuke Yokota will be on show in Foam&nbsp;in the spring of 2017.
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x804/c9a55792c3/from-the-series-taratine-untitled-2015-c-daisuke-yokota-courtesy-gp-gallery-1.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="804" />Untitled, 2015 from the series Taratin&nbsp;&copy; Daisuke Yokota / Courtesy G/P Gallery
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x744/4273e89097/from-the-series-color-photographs-untitled-2015-c-daisuke-yokota-courtesy-gp-gallery-1.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="744" />Untitled, 2015 from the series Color Photographs &copy; Daisuke Yokota / Courtesy G/P Gallery 
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x440/39efd6aaf8/from-the-video-out-of-air-by-broken-twin-untitled-2013-c-daisuke-yokota-courtesy-gp-gallery-2.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="440" />Untitled, 2013 from video Out of Air by Broken Twin &copy; Daisuke Yokota / Courtesy G/P Gallery 
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The <a href="/talent/foam-paul-huf-award">Foam Paul Huf Award</a> came about as a result of the special relationship Foam had with Dutch photographer Paul Huf (1924-2002). Paul Huf was known for his innovative photographic technique and was personally involved in the establishment of Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam in 2001.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Delta Lloyd, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.&nbsp;
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Winner Foam Paul Huf Award 2016

The winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2016 is revealed on 16 March 2016. The prize is awarded annually by Foam to an international photographic talent under the age of 35 and consists of &euro;20,000 and an exhibition at Foam.

The international jury meets in&nbsp;Amsterdam on 15 and 16 March to choose a winner from portfolios submitted by one hundred photographers nominated from around the world.&nbsp;
The Paul Huf Award 2016&nbsp;winner was revealed to be&nbsp;Daisuke Yokota.&nbsp;
<a href="/museum/programme/winner-foam-paul-huf-award-2016">&gt; Read more about 2016's winner</a>
The jury for the Foam Paul Huf Award 2016 consists of:
<ul>
<li>Chairman Simon Baker [senior curator, International Art (Photography) at Tate London, United Kingdom]</li>
<li>Joshua Chuang (independent curator and editor, United States)</li>
<li>Lucy&nbsp;Conticello (Director of Photography at M, Le Monde, Paris, France)</li>
<li>Felix Hoffmann (chief curator at C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany)</li>
<li>Thyago Nogueira (head of contemporary photography department, Moreira Salles Institute and editor ZUM photography Magazine, Brasil)</li>
</ul>
Winners from previous years are: 2015 &ndash;&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/momo-okabe">Momo Okabe</a>&nbsp;(1981, Japan); 2014 - <a href="/museum/programme/daniel-gordon">Daniel Gordon</a> (1980, United States); 2013 - <a href="/museum/programme/onorato-krebs">Taiyo Onorato &amp; Nico Krebs</a> (1979, Switzerland); 2012 - Alex Prager (1979, United States); 2011 - Rapha&euml;l Dallaporta (1980, France); 2010 - Alexander Gronsky (1980, Estonia); 2009 - L&eacute;onie Hampton (1978, United Kingdom); 2008 - Pieter Hugo (1976, South Africa); 2007 - Mikhael Subotzky (1981, South Africa) and Taryn Simon (1975, United States).
NOMINATION PROCESS To produce an internationally representative selection Foam approached around twenty nominators in various parts of the world. These nominators, specialists and experts in the field of photography, were each asked to select a number of talented photographers under the age of 35 in their own region.&nbsp; The award can be presented for any type of photography: from documentary or applied photography, to journalistic or independent work. The winner&rsquo;s work must exhibit a clear visual language and distinguish itself in both form and content.
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The Foam Paul Huf Award came about as a result of the special relationship Foam had with Dutch photographer Paul Huf (1924-2002). Paul Huf was known for his innovative photographic technique and was personally involved in the establishment of Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam in 2001.
Foam is sponsored by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Delta Lloyd, the City of Amsterdam and the VandenEnde Foundation.

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