Born in 1983, Saitama, Daisuke Yokota majored in Photogra-phy at Nippon Photography Institute in Tokyo. As the winner of the first Outset | Unseen Exhibition Fund at Unseen Photo Fair 2013, he presented a solo exhibition at Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, in 2014 with a series of his work that has been added to the museum collection. In the same year, his photography book VERTIGO was nominated for the Aper-ture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. In 2015, he performed at “Shashin: Photography from Japan,” New York, and participat-ing in “In the Wake Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, “Another Language,” Rencon-tres d’Arles as well as “trans-tokyo / trans-photo,” Jinmei x Ar-les International Photo Festival. Yokota has been the recipient of numerous awards such as the Foam Paul Huf Award (2016) and the Photo London John Kobal Residency Award (2015). His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in numer-ous collections, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Fotomuseum Winter-thur, Switzerland