San Francisco (ONLY 120 COPIES)

Yoshi Yubai
San Francisco (ONLY 120 COPIES)

Photographs: Yoshi Yubai

Text: V.Vale, Yosuke Konishi

Publisher: Tiny Splendor

60 pages

Year: 2017

Comments: Softcover, spiral bound, 275 x 175 mm. First edition, 2017. Risograph printing. Black & white photographs. Text in english. Edition limited to 120 copies.

Yoshi's photography explores a dark side of the human experiment. His work from his time in San Francisco reflects deviant aspects of humanity. Many of his subjects are people that a lot of us would consider "drug addicts, scumbags, gutter punks, homeless trannies," and so on, and they are presented in stark grayscale only, yet they are beautifully contrasted. Very much like black metal, his photos are both ugly and grotesque, but artfully stunning at the same time. While one basic impulse would be to rid our lives of such "unsavory characters", we should instead try to see something of ourselves in them. Just as we are all inclined to have moments of total nihilism, we are all partially formed of unsavory characteristics.

Yoshi first book a must have!!!