Toshio Shibata

Kurihawa City, Miyagi Prefecture (C-2827)

2016

37 x 45.75 inch type-c print Edition 5. Signed on label verso. This peaceful and harmoniously ordered photograph is representative of Yoko Ikeda's personal way of seeing. She is drawn to humble subjects and surroundings, places free of obvious associations, which lend themselves to poetic transformation when seen through her camera. It's notable that the blue retaining wall that ambles across this picture reads as the most aquatic feature—this despite the fact that The Sea of Japan can be glimpsed in a sliver, just over its right side. This gently playful inversion—a cement wall and the sea trading places...

20 x 24 inch type-c print, signed on verso. Edition 10. Throughout her career, photographer Yoko Ikeda has been finding poetry in the prosaic, and mystery in the mundane. Her photog...

20 x 24 inch type-c print Edition 10. Signed on verso. Throughout her career, photographer Yoko Ikeda has been finding poetry in the prosaic, and mystery in the mundane. Her photog...

37 x 45.75 inch type-c print Edition 5. Signed on verso. Framing available at an additional cost. Throughout her career, photographer Yoko Ikeda has been finding poetry in the prosaic, and mystery in the mundane. Her photographs serve to form an imaginary world, loosely based on commonplace subjects. Working mostly in Japan, but also in Belgium, the Netherlands, the United States and elsewhere, she has created images both ominous and inviting, uncanny in their ability to coax the unexpected from the known. Ikeda was born in Kanazawa City, and now lives and works in Tokyo. Her work has been exhibited in many one-person and group shows throughout Japan, as well as in Belgium and various venues in the United States. In 2013, she was the recipient of the prestigious Philadelphia Museum of Art Purchase Award, and her work is included in their collection. In 2016, Nazraeli pressed published her first monograph, entitled Monkey Puzzle...

20 x 24 inch type-c print Edition 10. Signed on verso. Throughout her career, photographer Yoko Ikeda has been finding poetry in the prosaic, and mystery in the mundane. Her photog...

20 x 24 inch type-c print Edition 10. Signed on verso. Throughout her career, photographer Yoko Ikeda has been finding poetry in the prosaic, and mystery in the mundane. Her photog...

Hake's Drove, British landscape photograph from Richard Heeps series, 36 Minutes in Cambridgeshire. Richard Heeps was awarded a Millennium Year of the Artist Arts Council Grant to make this work. This project was born from an idea to produce a set of photographs...

A completely natural scenery that is pure poetic painting, of rice padi fields in China. Peter Leung has won acclaim for his poetic style of imagery. Printed on superior Fuji photogr...

'Hell's Gate', part of Richard Heeps 'Dream in Colour' Series, this beautiful bright capture of the desert flower was taken at the gateway to Death Valley shortly after rainfall. Th...

Part of Richard Heeps 'Dream in Colour' Series, this beautiful dusk picture captures the sunset in the valley. It was photographed in what was once a goldmine, now a ghost town. The...

You can feel the heat in this classic Palm Tree Print, the almost silhouette of the Palm Tree against the saturated blue sky takes you to a hot sultry day. This artwork is a limited...

Part of Richard Heeps 'Dream in Colour' Series, he was set a challenge to find something interesting on the road from LA to Las Vegas. In the heart of the Mojave Desert, Richard foun...