2025/06/16 13:58
For all hand made print lovers,
I define myself as a photographer close to printmakers. I began producing work in the late 1980s, during the era of analog photography. In the early 2000s, I began using digital equipment to take commercial photographs. The damage caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 changed my values. My community and family were safe, but I realized once again that we are drifting in an uncertain and unstable world. I began taking photographs again using analog large-format equipment. I then became fascinated with the classic technique of platinum photography, and pursued the infinite gradations that range from pure white to jet black. I feel that my unconventional background has allowed my perspective to mature and become unique. In 2022, when the world was in the grip of a pandemic, I learned how to make Photogravure prints using digital equipment and a rotating roller press from photographer Ray Bidegain in Portland, Oregon. It was extremely difficult to master the technique, but I have never been so absorbed in a production before, and I have never known an experience that gave me such a new creative impulse. It was extremely difficult to master the technique, but I have never been so absorbed in a production before, and I have never known an experience that gave me such a new creative impulse. With that "hot yet cool" passion in my heart, I continue to create today with my fingertips and face in ink.
Yoshio Press
