What's left when all is lost ? A photo a souvenir ... Happy days captured in a Polaroid ... People's memories ... What is more touching than to try and capture them saving them from the rubble of these people's lives ... A patchwork of memories a live tableau of souveniers ... A tresor ... A face a hand a smile ... This incredable assembly is to help the people who's lives homes loved ones children were swept away let's help them by helping this extraordinary project I have never seen a thought like it ... Saving a past is helping the future helping to mend helping to salvage dreams ...
Occasionally I began to sense myself not gazing at somebody in the photo,
but seeing myself in the photo I'd taken. In my line of sight: my memories, or rather,
in fact, memories from a distant past that for some reason did not seem to be my own.
――Yoshihiko Ueda (from the preface)
1957年生まれ。代表作に、ネイティブアメリカンの神聖な森を撮影した『QUINAULT』（京都書院、1993）、「山海塾」を主宰する前衛舞踏家・ 天児牛大のポートレイト集『AMAGATSU』（光琳社、1995）、吉本隆明や安岡章太郎といった著名な日本人39名と対峙したシリーズ『ポルトレ』 （リトルモア、2003）、自身の家族に寄り添うようにカメラを向けた『at Home』（リトルモア、2006）、ミャンマーの僧院での白日夢のような時間の記録『YUME』（青幻舎、2010）、Leicaで撮ったフランク・ロ イド・ライト建築のポートフォリオ集『Frank Lloyd Wright』（エクスナレッジ、2003）などがある。 2008年以後、Paris Photoなどの国際アートフェアに出展。2010年には Michael Hoppen Gallery（ロンドン、UK）および TAI gallery (サンタ・フェ、USA) にて展覧会を開催、「QUINAULT」シリーズを発表した。2012年2月には、屋久島で撮り下ろした森の写真「Materia」を発表し、写真展を Gallery 916にて開催。2013年3月には、屋久島の川をアウトフォーカスで撮ったシリーズ「M.River」、同年5月には福井県・東尋坊で冬の日本海にデジ タル一眼で迫ったシリーズ「M.Sea」を発表。同年11月、Galerie taménaga Franceにて個展を開催。作品は、Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (USA)、New Mexico Arts、HermesInternational (FRA)、Stichting Art & Theatre、Amsterdam (NLD)、Bibliothèque nationale de Franceなどにそれぞれ収蔵されている。
Born 1957. Among his most noted series/monographs are Quinault (Kyoto Shoin, 1993), a brooding meditation on the eponymous sacred Native American rainforest; Amagatsu (Korinsha, 1995), a backstage study of Sankai Juku dancer-choreographer Ushio Amagatsu; Portrait (Littlemore, 2003), singular impressions of 39 leading Japanese figures the likes of Takaaki Yoshimoto and Shotaro Yasuoka; At Home (Littlemore, 2006), intimate snapshots of the artist's family; Yume (Seigensha, 2010), timeless, dreamlike images from a Buddhist monastery in Mandalay; and Frank Lloyd Wright (X-Knowledge, 2003), a portfolio of the architect's buildings documented with a Leica. Since 2008, Ueda's work has been exhibited at Paris Photo, among other art fairs. His "QUINAULT" photographs were featured in solo exhibitions at Michael Hoppen Gallery (London) and TAI Gallery (Santa Fe) in 2010 and his "Materia" photographs of primeval forest taken on the island of Yakushima at Gallery 916 in 2012. He released his "M.River" series of out-of-focus images of ancient streams in the mountains of Yakushima in March 2013, and in May, his "M.Sea" series of digital photographs taken with a single-lens reflex camera of the Sea of Japan from the Tojinbo cliffs of Fukui Prefecture, and in November, his solo exhibition were featured at Galerie taménaga France. His works are in the collections of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City), New Mexico Arts (Santa Fe), Hermés International (Paris), Stichting Art & Theatre (Amsterdam), and Bibliothèque nationale de France.
