Osamu Yokonami is a photographer based in Japan who's photos deal primarily with collective identity. He makes pictures that have the appearance of film stills but maintain their presence as stand-alone works. He is not very public about his process but it's obvious that a lot of foresight goes into production. Most feature a large crowd or are a series of different people doing the same action. From the looks of it, Yokonami shoots in digital, which allows for the hyper-real quality of these photos to be well understood.
Yokonami, as said before, works with concepts of identity. In many of his works feature uniform-clad subjects as a way to present them as one person, or multiple entities of one person. This masking of external identity often in turn augments the differences between the models that are unique to them. By asking subjects to do the same thing over and over again, or show many people wearing the same garments, he creates an interesting sort of narrative.
I've been drawn to Yokonami's work before, mainly because the images are just so beautiful. They have a certain devoid of seriousness that also really interests me. The subtle colors also really appeal to me which probably is why I find them so interesting. I also like this idea of many parts of one whole. The way that he goes about highlighting difference while also maintaining a lot of similarities is remarkable. I also really appreciate the attention to detail I constantly find when looking at his work. He has a clear vision of what he wants to communicate and is, at least I feel, successfully doing so.
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