about —

Ryo Yamanaka is a photographer, born and raised in Tokyo Japan, currently based in Barcelona, Spain.

She reflects 侘び寂び (wabi-sabi: art of impermanence & imperfection) in photography focusing on the intimacy between body and soul of the subject.

Death, a symbol of wabi-sabi, is her 1st life lesson ever since she can remember at the age of 4 losing her father to esophageal cancer. 

Her mission of life and as a photographer is to seek and capture the aesthetic of wabi-sabi at the moment that never comes back nor be the same. We all keep changing inside and out till the moment that forces to end in death, which in other words, proves that we do exist on this planet as human being having own body with emotions & thoughts that are just like clouds in the sky or waves on the shore.