Personal Background |
Yutha Yamanaka is a freelance fantasy photographer and graphic design artist born in Tokyo, Japan. He currently resides in Bali, Indonesia where he takes the majority of his photos. He started working with photoshop and photography when he was in high school. He often experimented with photo manipulation using pictures he took with his mother's camera, this lead to his passion for photography and editing. After high school he moved to Bali, Indonesia. The Bali's culture started to become a big influence for his work.
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"Doom and Gloom"
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Style |
The Style of Yutha's photos all have a consistent dark theme. Yutha's photos are made mostly of dull and dark colors such as greys, blacks, greens, etc. His photos are usually very surreal with elements of both fantasy and reality. He has a good balance of dark and light in all of his photos, so nothing ever outweighs anything else. He almost always uses a person as the point of focus in his pictures.
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"Flooded"
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Philosophy |
According to Yutha, there isn't really a message behind his artwork, but rather a presentation of his feelings. Most of those feelings include anxiety, Sadness, and anger as well as occasional happiness or comfort. Yutha says that he uses his photos to express all of his feelings similar to how painters express theirs with paintings or poets with poetry. He considers his work sort of like medicine for all of his bad feelings.
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"Inertia"
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Influences |
Yutha's photos inspire me to want to learn more about surrealism in photography and how to create photos that look real while also creating a sense of fantasy. I really enjoy the fantasy aspect in his photos. His photography encourages me to work with photography and photoshop more often as a way to express how I feel about someone or something by telling a story through a picture. His pictures show that you don't need the picture to look realistic in order to tell a story or convey a message and you can make it as unrealistic as you want as long as you have a story behind the artwork.
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"Cloudy"
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