Translation
from January issue (2000 1 No.83, P.175) of GQ Japan
:Satoru Yoshioka photo exhibition
Pictures
taken today appear to have been photographed quickly, like snapshots without calculation.Documentary-like
pictures are booming now. I think that photographers who make pictures elaborately are decreasing, but Satoru
Yoshioka could be the exception. He treasures personal images, which are not hastily captured.
Mr. Yoshioka has been active around Europe and
America as a fine art photographer. He went to the States in 1987.
He has been selected for Young European Photographer's '90. Mr. Yoshioka was the
first Japanese to receive this title
in 1990. Claiming to have been deeply influenced by German expressionism, he creates peculiar but well composed
pictures:
his images are filled with his light and soft textures. I cherish his photographs because they have been perfection from
every stage of
the their making: shooting, developing and printing. I could see the photographer's emotions and
the unqualified beauty that a human body just
shows only in a moment in his images.
Text by Naoko Aono
Satoru Yoshioka photo exhibition Until December 21 2000 Gallery Past Rays
246-5 Yamashita-cho, Naka-ku Yokohama-shiKanagawa 231-0023 Japan
045.661.1060
