Shiho Yoshida won the Grand Prize in the 11th “1_WALL” Photography Competition for “log,” her experimental work created by photographing Internet images with a film camera and then touching up the photos multiple times in a darkroom to give substance to fragments of the enormous number of images we see every day. Yoshida’s contemporary perspective reacting to Internet images appearing on cellphones and computer screens was highly acclaimed by the judging panel, together with the high level of achievement manifested in her portfolio and exhibited works.

Yoshida’s works incorporate a physical approach exemplified by her not merely reproducing a scene shown on a monitor but actually going to the location itself and photographing it; this is overlapped with the multiple optical processes involved in making her prints. This series of actions undertaken for a single image strips away the emotional and semantic aspects of her photographed object and gropes for emergence of an image unknown and unforeseen by Yoshida herself. Through such a process, the image fixed to a new base – printing paper – at first glance appears to be a simple image trimmed of its elements; but the viewer is confronted with the falsehood lurking in the photo and the relationship with the photographer, and made to think again about the true meaning of “seeing.”

This exhibition, Yoshida’s first solo show ever, will center on new works she has created since winning the Grand Prize in November 2014.