"This is a series based on infrared camera photographs of residential areas in suburban Tokyo, taken late in the evening. It was inspired by my interest in other people’s houses prompted by having my own family. Despite being an inorganic entity, houses change together with its residents and can never be separated from human activities. Even with the use of an infrared camera that responds to invisible rays, we cannot, of course, take a peek into these houses. The desire to have a glimpse of human activities despite its impossibility, made me strongly aware of “seeing” and “being seen.” We are now living a contradiction where on one hand we fear being seen by others, while on the other, our desire to see and know more keeps escalating as we come into contact with a large amount of information on a daily basis. Entering into the realm of the other from the overwhelming abyss between the self and the other that looms over residential areas late at night, makes me feel, together with the chasm between myself and the world, a peculiar feeling of comfort." - Yusuke Yamatani

In 2015, when Yamatani became a father for the first time, his photography recorded the commencement of this new phase of his life less literally. Into the Light (2017) was inspired by lonely walks around his neighbourhood in the middle of the night, having been woken by the baby. A dawning domestic sensibility made Yamatani curious about the lives of others taking place in the dark homes around him, and he began to experiment with infrared photography and its penetrative connotations.


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・AC/DC adaptor: 100V-240V (plug can be converted for any country)
・LED panel lights are replaceable and last 50,000 hours
・Color temperature: 5000K
・Color rendering: Ra90
・Power consumption: 12.48W
・Current consumption: 0.52A