Ricardo Yamamoto

Interview with Ricardo Yamamoto

Interview with Ricardo Yamamoto

Ricardo Yamamoto is a photographer based in Melbourne. Born in the South of Brazil to Japanese immigrants, he left the country in 1991 in the aftermath of the Brazilian military dictatorship and crippling economic crisis, a period locally known as The Lost Decade. Arriving in Japan as a factory worker, he experienced first-hand the commodification of labour driven by a…
Ricardo Yamamoto: Winter Gardens

Ricardo Yamamoto: Winter Gardens

Winter Gardens is a photographic essay about urban parks in a time of accelerated environmental distress. With images captured in and around the city of Melbourne, it invites the viewer to see these green micro universes through our moment in history, where a series of dark pictures can be made of a million dots of grey, and how well-defined lines…