10 Up And Coming Portrait Photographers

10. Tsutomu Yamagata

https://twitter.com/rinse_io/status/552830275026046976 A member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society, 1966-born Tsutomu Yamagata is from Japan, and based in Tokyo. With his recent portfolio entitled Thirteen Orphans, Yamagata won third prize in the Portfolio Catergory in the 2014 LensCulture Portrait Awards. His work revolves around people that he meets in a park not far from where he lives. These people are not categorized for his photography; and only used because they strike him as interesting subjects. "There is something about the people I met at the park that particularly attracts me, something more than just how they look, just what they say about themselves. It is as if they had a kind of magnetic power, unseen and quiet, further attracting those who take a close look at them. What is it, this magnetic power, quietly striking a chord in my heart, the heart of the one who directs his/her attention to them? How can I capture this power when I take photographs of those people? How can I express this power through my photographs? In this work of portraits I pursue this problem".