yashimamishto

Yashima Mishto lives and works in Ber­lin since 2003. YM has been work­ing with the medium of pho­to­graphy since 1994. Mishto's pho­to­graphy focuses on the explor­a­tion of the deep-running waters of erot­i­cism. YM's exclus­ive col­lab­or­a­tion with ama­teur mod­els has allowed depicting the unar­tic­u­lated sexu­al­ity, exhib­i­tion­ism, and cen­sured fantas­ies of a met­ro­pol­itan cul­ture which is still very far from sexual matur­ity. After ini­tial mis­ad­ven­tures in 2002, Yashima became a woman, played by one of his most cher­ished mod­els at exhib­i­tions and other pub­lic events. In 2007, Yashima again assumed his male iden­tity, hop­ing that his art would finally find a pub­lic which will approach it without any sex­ist pre­con­cep­tions. Yashima is fight­ing the over­bear­ing cen­sor­ship which affects both male and female, which acts before any gender dis­crim­in­a­tion, chain­ing the human being with any reg­u­lated kind of sexual inclin­a­tion. By invest­ig­at­ing Erot­i­cism as a means of com­mu­nic­a­tion, Mishto tries to demon­strate the mech­an­isms of oppres­sion inher­ent to our soci­ety. Besides his main above cited interest, Yashima col­lects vari­ous travel report­ages (from Cuba, Marocco, Thai­l­and, India, Viet­nam and Malay­sia, to name a few) and is involved with a long-running pro­ject regard­ing "Diversity", car­ried out in col­lab­or­a­tion with Uni­ver­sit­ies and NGOs.