Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Tales of Gloucstershire - Shizuka Yokomizo - 'Dear Stranger'

After talking to some of my friends and some Library research, I discovered Shizuka Yokomizo. A Japanese photographer, that now lives and works in London. Working in photography since the start of the 1990's, he has a very alternative look at photography, photographing everything in his own style, from nude models to into peoples home from the outside, I really enjoyed looking at his work.
The project that I looked into and gave me more ideas for my shoot/s, is about strangers and getting a small peak into their homes. Between 1998 and 2000, he photographed many different windows around London by sending out a letter with the details of what his plan was to photograph their living rooms. Below is the letter template he sent out to the home owners about photographing them



On his website he has chosen his favourite images from the series and after some researching around I found out that instead of names, they were labelled 'Stranger No....', each one having a different number from the next in the order he had obviously taken them and chosen which ones to exhibit e.c.t. Below are the images and labels from the series I found on his website. I hope to do shoo some of my photos for my stories in the same style, to at least experiment with the techniques and see what happens.
 Stranger No6, 1999
 Stranger No10, 1999
 Stranger No18, 2000
  Stranger No19, 2000
  Stranger No24, 2000
  Stranger No2, 1999
  Stranger No2,1998
  Stranger No5, 1999
  Stranger No7, 1999
  Stranger No13, 1999
  Stranger No9, 1999
 Stranger No21, 2000


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