Retouch
Yokohama is home to a variety of monuments that show the progress of Japan’s modern era. While they tell the history of the land and give the citizens a sense of pride, not many people pay attention to them today. Placing a renewed focus on monuments, and considering their association with history and the present, and with photography, I propose a new series of monuments in Yokohama. This photo series, Retouch, consists of images of monuments of Yokohama, with the inscriptions removed by image processing. The monuments are reconstructed as photographs of wordless objects and captions.
Kunihiko SATO
Photographer and product designer. Born 1986 in Tokyo, Japan. Sato graduated from the Division of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, in 2010. Since 2017, he has been working as a freelance designer after working for a design office. Along with his design practice, he takes photographs of relics and monuments that embody the invisibility of history and examines the relationship of these objects, its society, and its people.