Daisuke Yokota - Untitled #1 - 2023

Basic Information
Title: Untitled #1
Author: Daisuke Yokota
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Self-published
Specifications: Softcover / 270 x 200 mm / 84 pages / Black and white
Content and Features
This photobook is the first in a self-published series that Daisuke Yokota has been actively publishing in recent years (#2 and #3 were also produced in the same year).
Experimental Technique: Rather than simply recording the subject, Yokota employs a unique technique of physically and chemically processing the film and photographic paper (heating, dissolving in acid, etc.) to incorporate randomness and noise.
Abstract Imagery: Even when concrete landscapes or people are depicted, the images dissolve and transform through this process, taking on the texture of abstract painting.
Background: Yokota is pursuing the possibilities of the medium of photography itself, and this series is positioned as an experimental body of work that visualizes the process of "shooting, developing, and fixing."