San Francisco
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Yoshi Yubai's "San Francisco" photography book is a walk through a seldom-seen part of the city, where Yubai met, and both befriended and "stole" images of the denizens of the dark he encountered. Often on a bicycle in the wee hours of the morning, he found an alternate reality of darkness and psychological border crossing. These elements were also found in the broad daylight of the downtown business world and the advertisements that decorate these streets. With an eye from Asia, Yoshi Yubai has captured a part of the underground that most of us may never see. All shot with a 35mm celluloid camera and hand-printed in Japan. Yoshi Yubai's street photography is in the realm of Daido Moriyama: "The World through My Eyes" (2010 isbn 9788857200613) and the photography of Naito Masatoshi.
Yoshi Yubai
Yoshi Yubai was born in 1980 and grew up in Hiroshima, Japan. He began studying countercultures as a teenager, and became an expert in rock music, Punk, and unusual cultural phenomena. He first traveled to San Francisco at age 20, returning several times to study English and intern at RE/Search. He began using a film camera during this time, studying with Ana Barrado and returning to Japan to study with Masatoshi Naito for a period. He also traveled extensively in Europe, studying the 16th century printmaking and painting masters, and moved to New York City for a period, doing Street Photography there and helping out at Japanese restaurants.
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