Artist Research.

Iwao Yamawaki.

Born 1898 in Nagasaki, Iwao Yamawaki was a Japanese photographer and architect who trained at the Bauhaus in the early 1930's. He was an interesting figure at the intersection of modernism and the history of Japanese photography. Strongly influenced by Laszio Moholy-Nagy and Walter Peterhans (teachers at the Bauhaus), his architecture photographs and photo montages demonstrate a close relationship between design and space. He continuously tried to interpret the connection between humans and an architectural space.

His work resonates with me, although they differ in motif we both try to establish a connection between human interaction and something which is essentially froze in time. My landscape and architectural photographs focus on the contrast between two entirely different views. His use of only black and white photographs also have a distinct message, his images look cold and unwelcoming but also taking nothing away from the structure depicted, 

Lucia Maholy

The portrait and architectural photography as well as the photos of objects that Lucia Moholy (1894–1989) created at the Bauhaus have made her one of the most renowned female photographers of the early 20th century. 

Her work surrounds several subjects within photography from architectural photographs of the Bauhaus building and freelance photpgraphy to still lifes and portraits. Working around the same time as Iwao Yamakwaki and adopting a similar style of producing her work.