YUNI YOSIHIDA
Personal Background
Yuni Yosihida was born October 2nd, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan where she still resides. She is a Japanese art director who got her degree from Joshibi University of Art and Design, granting her well deserved work with advertising agencies and freelance graphic design jobs. Some of Yoshihida biggest accomplishments so far would be her solo exhibition at Laforet Museum Harajuku, as well as photographing for huge brands like Mercedes-Benz and Lowrys Farm. As UTmagazine reports culture to Yuni Yosihida is "input and output", meaning that in a way what she does influences someone else being their input and thus the cycle continues.
Style
Surreal photography is Yosihida's style, making every image colorful and dreamlike. Much of her artwork and photographs are tastefully provocative in showing off women's bodies. She also continuously involves fruits cut in different ways to add pops of color and new aged photography. Her images of food feel digital as each cube that covers part of the food is a real life pixels. Her digital take on photography provides a real life work around providing more texture to each piece.
Philosophy
While it isn't specifically stated in an article what her culture brings to her photography, we can infer that she enjoys advertisements and campaign projects. Specifically distorting the products into body parts or accessories. She wants everyone to stop and look at each picture and image, to think and pounder. We know that pops of color, women's bodies and food continue to inspire her. Her work helps express the creativity in her head in ways that we can only hope to understand.
Influences
Yosihida's artwork makes me think more outside of the digital editing aspect of photography. They way she manipulates/distorts objects and food with pout just editing it in amazes me. Her art-form encourages me to use color and unique mixes of objects to add "flavor" into the photograph. Everyday moments when Yosihida was young, has influenced her outlook on photography. Her goal is to make you wonder what off about an image, push limits to make you wonder.
I choose to use this photo because I had the material on hand. I had to put a hanger in the shirt to show that it had shoulders. I had my brother help me position my legs and make the hat lay perfectly on my feet. I struggled most with the background color as I didn't have a wall or paper large enough and that exact color to fill the backdrop I had to edit it in. So that required me to color selector tool which I hadn't used before.
I struggled with keeping a hold of the bananas without them falling apart on me. I did enjoy cutting out each part of the peel to form it into a foot and heel shape. however my bananas aren't as smooth or bight as those in the original image.
This image was really difficult for me to take I had to cut out 2 red bell peppers. To balance the piece of the heel and making the pepper glossy was hard. but trying to figure out the logistics and set up was really fun to do.
Personal Artist Statement
These images were really fun to make as it was a really creative process. It was difficult to find an image that I could easily do with the resources I had available. Each image took a creative team to help make it possible which was a fun bonding experience with my family to help pull this off. Each photo I chose to recreate involved some creative way to show off "apparel" in a food, surrealism type of way. I enjoyed that this artist is able to do these images with ads and large cooperations allowing you to look and wonder "why?".