Yosuke Takeda graduated in Philosophy from Doshisha University in 2005. While he was studying he began to work with analogue photography, exploring the potential for manipulation of the laboratory developing process. However the material limitations that he soon encountered (e.g. obtaining photographic paper was becoming increasingly difficult) led him to explore what the changes in the industry meant. He shifted his interest to digital images and began to analyse the possibilities of transforming initial photographs by computer.
His major series is Stay Gold, which comprises images taken in different years. It was published in two variants: a solo exhibition at the Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo in 2014 and a book under the same title. The exhibition actually brought together several projects: Stay Gold: Digital Flare, a photo intervention over two days in Kurenboh, at the Chohouin Buddhist temple, on whose curved walls he invited viewers to meditate based on his photos featuring real and fictitious light; Stay Gold: Two Walls, for which he printed the same image on two different materials (wallpaper and photographic paper); and Stay Gold: Color Proof, which he produced at the gallery itself and which comprised the sheets containing the colour proofs that he created while producing the book Stay Gold.
Yosuke Takeda has taken part in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, USA, 2016), the Ryugu Bijutu Ryokan (Yokohama, Japan, 2012), the Hiromiyoshii Roppongi (Tokyo, 2011) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (2007 & 2008). Solo exhibitions of his work have been staged at the Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo, 2016) and the 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo, 2012).
Yosuke Takeda graduated in Philosophy from Doshisha University in 2005. While he was studying he began to work with analogue photography, exploring the potential for manipulation of the laboratory developing process. However the material limitations that he soon encountered (e.g. obtaining photographic paper was becoming increasingly difficult) led him to explore what the changes in the industry meant. He shifted his interest to digital images and began to analyse the possibilities of transforming initial photographs by computer.
His major series is Stay Gold, which comprises images taken in different years. It was published in two variants: a solo exhibition at the Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo in 2014 and a book under the same title. The exhibition actually brought together several projects: Stay Gold: Digital Flare, a photo intervention over two days in Kurenboh, at the Chohouin Buddhist temple, on whose curved walls he invited viewers to meditate based on his photos featuring real and fictitious light; Stay Gold: Two Walls, for which he printed the same image on two different materials (wallpaper and photographic paper); and Stay Gold: Color Proof, which he produced at the gallery itself and which comprised the sheets containing the colour proofs that he created while producing the book Stay Gold.
Yosuke Takeda has taken part in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, USA, 2016), the Ryugu Bijutu Ryokan (Yokohama, Japan, 2012), the Hiromiyoshii Roppongi (Tokyo, 2011) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (2007 & 2008). Solo exhibitions of his work have been staged at the Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo, 2016) and the 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo, 2012).