ITTETSU MATSUOKA
ITTETSU MATSUOKA
Ittetsu Matsuoka
"Ittetsu Matsuoka was born in 1978.
After graduating from the Photography Department at the College of Art of Nihon University, he worked at studio FOBOS before going independent.
While working as a freelance photographer, he launched “THERME gallery” in June 2008. He primarily produces advertising, fashion, and other commercial works, while simultaneously shooting his everyday surroundings and capturing the world through an even perspective. His main solo exhibitions include “MARII” (Bookmarc, Tokyo, 2018) and “MARII” (Morioka Shoten, Tokyo, 2018), “Purple Matter” (Daitokai, Tokyo, 2014), “Yasashiidake” (Ruroudou, Tokyo, 2014), and “Tokyo Particle μ” (THERME Gallery, Tokyo, 2011). He is currently based in Tokyo.”
Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1978. Currently based in Tokyo.
After graduating from the Department of Photography, he worked at Studio Phobos and then became independent. While working as a freelance photographer, he launched and runs Terme Gallery in June 2008. While he mainly works on commercial films such as fashion and advertising, he continues to capture the world with an equal gaze while taking photos of his daily surroundings. His main solo exhibitions include "Just Yasashii" Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film (Tokyo, 2020), "Marii" Bookmarc (Tokyo, 2018), "Marii" Morioka Shoten (Tokyo, 2018), "Purple Matter" Daitokai (Tokyo, 2014), "Just Yasashii" Rurodo (Tokyo, 2014), and "Tokyo Muon" Terme Gallery (Tokyo, 2011). He is currently based in Tokyo.
Matsuoka Ittetsu has produced photographic works that belong to the lineage of personal photography, capturing scenes of his wife Marie, or scenes in which her presence can be sensed, such as rooms and towns. He believes that the comprehensive concepts and word-based interpretations that permeate our selves are merely based on given definitions created by humans, and continues to attempt to reinterpret the world through the non-verbal medium of photography. The images, captured with the photographer's equal gaze to capture personal everyday scenes in a uniform manner, evoke familiar emotions in the viewer from the subject and the appearance of the town, while also evoking a mysterious sensation that seems to affirm the existence of all that appears there, inviting the viewer into a quietly yet powerful world of his work.
Matsuoka is interested in flattening images through color.
The works he photographed with the Olympus μ (Mu), which he has used for many years, have a uniform pale color tone and incorporate the blur and bokeh that are unique to analog, as well as a characteristic softness, to create a unique floating feeling.
True to the artist's words, "I capture hope as it is in my photographs," Matsuoka carefully captures the ever-changing landscapes that seem to unravel the rigidly formed world.
