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Meaning in Emptiness
Photographer Tomoko Yoneda (b. 1965) has spent the last few decades travelling to locations across the world which are saturated with historic and cultural memory â from earthquake sites to abandoned government buildings. A retrospective of her work, now running at the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid, poses the question of whether these vacant or isolated spaces bear a residue of the events they witnessed.
Born in Akashi, Japan, Yoneda began training as a journalist in the United States before abandoning her studies to pursue photography, gaining a degree from the University of Illinois in 1989. It was there that she first encountered the modernist photographic tradition that continues to influence her, most significantly the New Bauhaus school of photography spearheaded by László Moholy-Nagy from the 1930s onwards. This influence is evident in Yonedaâs work, appearing in her recurrent focus on minimal architectural spaces. Her images often inv