What On Earth Is The Past?

• Prize
  Bronze in Book/Fine Art
• Photographer
  Yugo Ito
• Agency / Studio
  Ito Photo Studio
• Technical Info
  Handmade Dry Plate Collodion Process, 4x5inch tintype
• Photo Date
  2017
• Website
  http://yugoito.com

What on earth is the past? While looking at these dry plate photographs, you will realise that you hover between the present and the distant past of each place at the same time. You will sense the past as if you know the past. However, you have never actually experienced those pasts. In other words, the past exists in our brain as the future does. These dry plate photographs describe that the past is not something to stream to the present. It is something to be improvised for the present on each occasion.

• Biography
  He grew up as the 4th generation of a family-owned photo studio. He has mainly taken Daguerreotype, Wet plate collodion process and Dry plate collodion process photographs for his customers with his hand-made large format camera. But, since 2019, he has started to build a huge portable darkroom camera in Giroux Daguerreotype camera style in the photo studio. Customers can get inside the darkroom camera and also witness how their photo that this darkroom camera takes is developed with a photographer. He has also got interviewed for Asahi Newspaper and Kyodo News about the darkroom camera.
• Awards
  -Awards- (17 Awards so far) 2019 Monochrome Awards 2019 Portrait, Honorable Mention (professional), [Daguerreotype] 2019 Monochrome Awards 2019 Portrait, Honorable Mention (professional), [Wet Plate Collodion] 2019 Monochrome Awards 2019 Portrait, Honorable Mention (professional), [Wet Plate Collodion] 2019 Monochrome Awards 2019 Architecture, Honorable Mention (professional), [Dry Plate Collodion(Handmade)] 2018 Monochrome Awards 2018 Architecture, "1st Place Winner" (professional), [Dry Plate Collodion(Handmade)] 2018 Monochrome Awards 2018 Architecture, Honorable Mention (professional), [Dry Plate Collodion(Handmade)] 2018 Monochrome Awards 2018 Architecture, Honorable Mention (professional), [Dry Plate Collodion(Handmade)] 2017 Monochrome Awards 2017 Landscapes, Honorable Mention (professional), [Dry Plate Collodion(Handmade)] 2017 Monochrome Awards 2017 Landscapes, Honorable Mention (professional), [Digital] 2016 The Rendering The Spirit show (Alternative Photographic Process), United States, Twelve Selected Artists 2015 Thirty for Thirty, United Kingdom, Thirty Emerging Artists 2014 The 62nd Nikkor (Nikon) Photo Contest, Japan, 5th Prize in U-31 Division 2013 The 11th Japan Photography Association, Award of Excellence 2013 The 17th Japan General Photographic Exhibition, Two Awards of Excellence 2013 The Embassy of The Republic Of Korea in Japan, Photo Contest, Selected 2013 Hasselblad & The Embassy of Sweden in Japan, Innovation Photo Contest, Finalists 2012 The 64th Chunichi Photo Contest (Japanese Newspaper), Selected