Opening: Kohei Yoshiyuki at Presentation House Gallery
- Date: 8 pm on Saturday, September 10 2011
- Show: The Park
- Artist: Kohei Yoshiyuki
- Medium: Photography
- Location: Presentation House Gallery
- Address: 333 Chesterfield Ave, North Vancouver
Presentation House Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of gelatin silver prints by Kohei Yoshiyuki. The series of images on display, collectively titled The Park, were taken at night in the vicinity of Tokyo from 1971 to 1979 and capture sexual encounters between straight and gay partners, and the voyeurs who stalked them. The ghostly overexposed look of The Park results from the infrared film and filtered flash that Yoshiyuki used to disguise his presence. Indeed, a striking aspect of the images is how the photographer captured the absorption of his subjects in their illicit activities without disturbing them.
Contributed by Mike Gobbi