Category: Exhibition

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My Silent Road Exhibition

I will exhibit my photo series “My Silent Road” sometimes soon in a very special place in Yokohama. I realized I have started to think think of Yokohama naturally as my hometown. Finland feels like a chapter which I have already read and there’s no reason to return to it. There are so many lovely people near me here. I really was like a walking corpse once, but now I feel healthy and alive again. Love Songs might be for my mother. But this is for you.

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Yesterdays Party

It was such a nice party yesterday in Bar Sara. I was surprised so many people came to the party, both old and new friends.

When you keep exhibition, at some point you really have to face yourself as a person or as an artist. It’s always a process and not especially easy one.

But I thought, perhaps this is beginning of new era in my art life and in my personal life too. Perhaps more spiritual things will come.

Really, thank you for coming. You made the event special. If you are around Gakugei Daigaku area, please come and see the exhibition. It’s until 9th of June.

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From the Depths of Lizard Point

Although this one didn’t make it to the final artwork, I still love this image because it conveys so much.

Actually, the black cloth was just an experiment what I wanted to try in addition to the main set-up, a torn black camisole which exposed her much more. I shot about four rolls of TMax 400 with her wearing the camisole. Those images turned out to be cool, but it was finally the chemistry with her body and this simple black cloth which really conveyed the idea.

It was really such pleasure to work with Yuki since she has so strong talent and intuition both as an artist and as a model. It wouldn’t have been possible to make this with anyone else. I’m also very grateful for our comrade Paulo who shot video of our shooting and gave a great help for us.

I made silver gelatin prints of the five final images in Dark Room Intl. with kind guidance from the staff. These are the final prints that you will see in exhibition.  I love the feel of traditional dark room prints because every print is unique, like an artwork itself. It’s the spirit of human feeling that I wanted to convey with these works, so I’m glad I decided to use analog media.

If you’d ask me now,  “If you would keep exhibition, what kind of images would you show to convey your own inner world?” I would answer, “images like these”.

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Freedom

My photo “Freedom” was recently portrayed in group exhibition in Yoshidamachi Gallery, Yokohama. I took this photo in last summer in Noge by using Kodak Gold and converted the digital scan to monochrome.

I think “freedom” is perfect title for this photo.