Tsugi no yoru e, On to the next night | Ysusuke Yamatani | Selfpublished 2013 [SIGNED, ARTIST PROOF]

First signed and numbered edition, seld published by the author in 2013 and sold out in a very short time. Yusuke Yamatani's first book. This copy is an signed artist proof (A.P.) copy.

"Sometimes I feel like I'm lost between the ages. I spent my teenage and early adulthood in the 2000s, but most of the things I enjoyed were from the past. That's why with photography I want to find something that transcends space, and I'm drawn to things that have an intensity that transgresses time. When I was 22, I left the punk band I was a part of, and a simple impulse led me to photography. To find out what it meant to me photography I've traveled all over Japan and abroad, but I wasn't comfortable with just pressing the shutter at whatever news came my way.

In 2010 I decided I wanted to get back into the world of live music venues, camera in hand. I felt that even those who gathered in these places drifted between the past and the present. I wanted to clarify where I came from. I decided to move to an old friend in Osaka where I barely knew anyone, as opposed to Tokyo where I had a lot of acquaintances. We were on the street every night and weekends at live music venues. I hung out with new friends until morning, but there was never a night where I felt truly accomplished and I constantly felt frustrating incompleteness. I had hoped, simplistically, to encounter something. But nothing like this has ever appeared.
This is "Tsugi no yoru e"." (Yusuke Yamatani)