Daisuke Yokota

Daisuke Yokota majored in Photography at Nippon Photography Institute in Tokyo. Represented by the G/P Gallery in Tokyo, he is the recipient of a number of awards including the Excellence Award at Canon New Cosmos of Photography (2008), the Epson Color Imaging Contest Award (2008), and the Grand Prize at 1_WALL Exhibition (2010). His work has been featured in several international art fairs including Paris Photo, Paris, and Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam. As the winner of the first Outset I Unseen Exhibition Fund at Unseen Photo Fair 2013, he presented a solo exhibition at Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, in May 2014 with a series of his work that has been added to the museum’ s collection. 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, as well as at ‘In the Wake Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11,’ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was recently featured in the group exhibition “Another Language: 8 Japanese Photographers” curated by Simon Baker at the Rencontres d’ Arles Photo Festival in July 2015.

Daisuke Yokota, 1983, Saitama, Japan.