Daisuke Yokota

Born in 1983 in Saitama, north of Tokyo, Yokota is part of a generation of younger artists using photography in subversive new ways. His approach combines multiple rephotographing and printing, applying acid or flame to the end results, and making one-off prints and books from unexpected materials in staged public performances. Yokota is working out of, and pushing forward, a Japanese tradition of photobook-making that harks back to the visceral experimentation of the Provoke generation and the work of the relentless photobook-maker Daido Moriyama.