Archives
Tomoko Yoneda
tomoko yoneda, seascape, the location american backed troops landed in an attempt to start a counter-revolution against castro's government, bay of pigs, cuba, 2002
photograpgie couleur, 106 x 125cm
coproduction maison européenne de la photographie, paris
Born in 1965 in Akashi City (Japan), he lives in London.
If all stones could talk, they would all tell as many different tales as there human beings living in them. For Tomoko Yoneda, walls talk, places have a history, and only the informed consciousness can evoke this past. Her photographs take another look at landscapes and environments informed by a meaningful past, which is almost blurred. A photograph of a tranquil seascape in Brazil is thus in reality the place where the infamous Nazi doctor, Mengele, died, and the picture of an ordinary looking office is in fact General MacArthur's operations room. In this kind of social archaeology, Yoneda thinks about photography as "history painting", at the service of truth, or as an instrument for manufacturing myths.