In fifteen years Yoko Yamamoto has put together a poetic, authentic story in images of the geishas living in a historic district in Tokyo. She captures the intimacy of their daily lives, focusing on the environment, the succession of the seasons, the gentility of their acts and the elegant harmony of details. On the whole her work is not intended to document their lives, but rather to express a rare representational sensibility. But when creative photography is top quality the miracle of dual value sometimes occurs, inspiring not only aesthetic admiration but deep-seated awareness of microcosms which are difficult to grasp or often abused.
In fifteen years Yoko Yamamoto has put together a poetic, authentic story in images of the geishas living in a historic district in Tokyo. She captures the intimacy of their daily lives, focusing on the environment, the succession of the seasons, the gentility of their acts and the elegant harmony of details. On the whole her work is not intended to document their lives, but rather to express a rare representational sensibility. But when creative photography is top quality the miracle of dual value sometimes occurs, inspiring not only aesthetic admiration but deep-seated awareness of microcosms which are difficult to grasp or often abused.