Osamu Yokonami: Small Town GRAMATA 23 For more than three decades

For more than three decades Ken Graves and Eva Lipman were partners in both life and art

the scent of Hyacinth floods your senses

" — Sunil Gupta

But what will we become after we have taken the watery track

Contributors: Nasreen

Osamu Yokonami: Small Town GRAMATA 23 For more than three decadesStaged on a farm in rural Japan, externaling Higashikawa in Hokkaido, Osamu Yokonamis (b. 1967, Japanese) images demonstrate his particular use of photography as an artistic medium. Working with straightforward camera angles, Yokonami transforms ordinary bodies, farming tools and the local produce into haunting imagesunexpectedly absurd and familiar. Headless figures, an aubergine masked face, an abandoned baby on a paper bag, a topless character