Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009

Now based in New York on a Japanese government fellowship, photographer Tsukasa Yokozawa is known for playing with expectations. Images in his “Parallel Lives” of urban and natural landscapes often seem synchronized, but on closer inspection reveal themselves as entirely distinct—an effect he achieves without recourse to Photoshop. “I place plural and independent things on the same plane parallel to each other,” Yokozawa explains. “Even though at first sight they seem to be synchronized, they are in fact each individual and singular. I would like to affirm this unsynchronized nature of the world—for love is what remains unsynchronized.”

Motus Fort
Tsukasa Yokozawa. Parallel Lives. Photography. Until Oct 24, free. 1-3-5 Higashi-Kanda, Chiyoda-ku. Open Wed-Sat 11am-7pm, closed Sun-Tue. Nearest stn: Bakuro-Yokoyama. www.motusfort.net