Yoshihiko Ito, Stillness, 2023 – Courtesy of the artist & PGI
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Yoshihiko Ito Frottage – Ode to the Darkroom
19/03/2025 - 30/04/2025
PGI
TKB bldg. 3F
2-3-4 Higashi Azabu, Minato-ku
106-0044 Tokyo
www.pgi.ac
PGI presents Yoshihiko Ito’s exhibition Frottage – Ode to the Darkroom.
Yoshihiko Ito graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography and began working as a photographer in the late 1970s. Shooting with a half-size camera, he developed the Contact Sheet series, in which the contact prints themselves, with the photographs presented in the order in which they were taken, form individual compositions. In the late 1990s, he began his Patrone series, inspired by ancient Japanese picture scrolls that depict successive events within a single composition. In his work, Ito explores themes and concepts that are inherently difficult to express through photography alone, such as the flow of time and consciousness.
In this exhibition, titled Ode to the Darkroom, PGI presents a selection of Ito’s frottage works created between 2020 and 2024. Each work is a meticulous, hand-crafted homage that expresses Ito’s deep reverence for the darkroom.
19/03/2025 - 30/04/2025
PGI
TKB bldg. 3F
2-3-4 Higashi Azabu, Minato-ku
106-0044 Tokyo
www.pgi.ac
PGI presents Yoshihiko Ito’s exhibition Frottage – Ode to the Darkroom.
Yoshihiko Ito graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography and began working as a photographer in the late 1970s. Shooting with a half-size camera, he developed the Contact Sheet series, in which the contact prints themselves, with the photographs presented in the order in which they were taken, form individual compositions. In the late 1990s, he began his Patrone series, inspired by ancient Japanese picture scrolls that depict successive events within a single composition. In his work, Ito explores themes and concepts that are inherently difficult to express through photography alone, such as the flow of time and consciousness.
In this exhibition, titled Ode to the Darkroom, PGI presents a selection of Ito’s frottage works created between 2020 and 2024. Each work is a meticulous, hand-crafted homage that expresses Ito’s deep reverence for the darkroom.