Infinity Complex Landscape – Journey through the East Ukraine. Yoshie Itasaka

Posted in photography, Zines on February 11th, 2023
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Infinity Complex Landscape is a photography fanzine documenting Yoshie Itasaka’s journey through contemporary East Ukraine landscape, its complexities and its contradictions.

“(…)
It is impossible for one nation to assimilate the culture of another nation completely.
Life and development of culture has various patterns.

The Culture of a creator and the culture of a borrower will continue to develop,
but in different directions. All of this is often complicated by differing conditions and types.

It is wrong to identify the merger of cultures with the assimilation of a foreign culture.
As a general rule, only a mixture of cultures is possible. However, despite this impossibility,
many nations exert immense effort in pursuit of such assimilation…
(…)”

“Europe and Mankind” by Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy, Sofia, 1920

Yoshie Itasaka (b. 1984, Osaka) started her nomadic journey in 2010. From 2010 to 2013 the photographer traveled North America. From 2013 to 2020 she traveled the European Continent (including the Balkans, Caucasus, Russia), Israel, and Palestine.

Photos and art direction by Yoshie Itasaka
Design by maho ohashi
Edition of 300 copies
Printed in Kyoto, Japan

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