Selected by Yoshihiro Ikka
Publisher, Libro Arte

Statement by Yoshihiro Ikka

“Nous n’irons plus au bois”
by Ayaka Yamamoto

I want to be completely enchanted and swayed by the single sheet of skin that covers living beings. When the transmission of thought through words breaks off, I melt her name with the sensation of my entire body. As a sound which does not reach words flows out, slowly, the impossible-to-translate image of a female figure rises up.


Ayaka Yamamoto is a photographer based in Kobe, Japan.
To view more of Ayaka Yamamoto's work, please visit her website.
To purchase Ayaka Yamamoto's works, please visit Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film

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© Ayaka Yamamoto / Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film