Photography / Sculpture by Yuichi Ikehata

Japanese photographer Yuichi Ikehata’s series ‘Fragments of Long Term Memory’ sculpts human body forms by scaffolding the models with clay, wire, and paper. He then photographs and composites his subjects together.

Ikehata was born in Chiba, Japan in 1975 and graduated from Tokyo’s Sokei Academy of Fine Art and Design in 2001. His work has been exhibited in Japan and was included in London’s 2015 FLUX Exhibition at the Royal College of Art and the 2014 +81 Gallery’s “Vol. 65” show in New York City.

“Fragment of Long Term Memory (LTM), an ongoing photographic series, conveys an unrealistic world through fragments of reality. My understanding of reality comes from its moments of beauty, sadness, fun, perfection, and those days when nothing special happens. Many parts of our memories, however, are often forgotten, or difficult to recall. I retrieve those fragmented moments and reconstruct them as surreal images.” -Yuichi Ikehata