Works / Science & landscape
Why do we exist?
A visual study of the world of high-energy physics.
Project
- Began
- Photographing at SLAC in 2006, following a first visit in 2005
- Locations
- Research laboratories in Japan, the United States and Europe
- Related book
- Big Science: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Yoshioka enters places built to investigate the fundamental nature of matter. He photographs experimental apparatus alongside roads, rooms, buildings and daily working spaces, in sunlight and artificial light.
The work considers the human environments around scientific enquiry: newly built instruments, equipment that has completed its purpose, and the ordinary traces of work within extraordinary facilities. The photographs ask what these places might reveal to someone who has never entered them.
After first visiting SLAC in 2005, he began photographing there in 2006. In 2007, an introduction by Neil Calder led him to CERN. His subsequent work has taken him to laboratories including KEK, J-PARC, Fermilab, Brookhaven, DESY, Kamioka and SPring-8.
Exhibitions & context
Beyond the laboratory.
Sciencescape — Science expands new landscape photography
Zuiun-an · Kyoto, Japan
MECHA-MECHA
Radi-um von Roentgenwerke AG · Tokyo, Japan
Why do we exist? / Visual Study of High Energy Physics / CERN
Shinjuku Nikon Salon · Tokyo, Japan
Why do we exist?
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology · Okinawa, Japan
Why do we exist?
gallery ARTE · Kagawa, Japan
Contact
A conversation
begins with an image.
For exhibition proposals, curatorial enquiries, publications and information about prints or handmade books, please contact the artist.