Wataru Yamamoto
I document nature as a psychological image that is continuously transformed. I study the examination of nature in contemporary urban societies and the representation of nature through the photographic medium to decipher the diverse meanings of the concept of “nature.” In all of my works, I document the phenomena that are produced through the relation between humans and nature instead of positioning nature in opposition to modern artifice. In other words, I aim to document neither humans nor nature but what exists between them. It is the essential ambiguity of photography, as both an optical process of “writing with light” and psychological representational technique of “copying truth,” which I use to document such images. All of my works are an attempt to answer whether it is possible to document ambiguity.
