Selected works by Yasushi Okano examines the delicate interplay between nature and human intervention, using traditional film photography to reflect the subtle beauty and transformation of everyday landscapes.

Okano’s mastery of traditional film photography, utilizing color negatives, lends a textured, almost tactile quality to his images, inviting a contemplative reflection on the subtleties of light and atmosphere. His subjects—ranging from misty horizons to infrastructural interventions—are treated with a measured gaze, balancing the natural and the artificial in an understated tension that speaks to the quiet shifts occurring in both rural and urban Japan.

Okano's work evokes a deep connection to place, yet avoids romanticization. His photographs of man-made structures, such as the reinforced hillside in Aogashima, reveal an almost sculptural fascination with how human activities subtly transform landscapes. Through this lens, the work becomes a meditation on coexistence—between the organic and engineered, the ephemeral and the enduring—articulated through the slow, deliberate process of analog photography. In this way, Okano challenges the accelerated pace of contemporary visual culture, offering instead a space to pause and reconsider our relationship with the ever-evolving world around us.