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Daisuke Yokota

Translated by Ivan Vartanian

Art & Photography
Granta 127
24th April 2014

I look at a photograph. It is an image that I shot some time ago. It has been just long enough since I shot the image that I am fuzzy on the exact circumstances of the time.

Daisuke Yokota

Daisuke Yokota is a photographer who lives and works in Tokyo. He is the recipient of the first award from the first Foam Outset Exhibition Fund.

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Translated by Ivan Vartanian

Ivan Vartanian is an author, curator, collaborator and publisher of photobook editions. He lives in Tokyo. 

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