MakotoSasaki’s clean and elegant photographs masterfully utilize unique angles and negative space to create distinctively modern visions of the visual landscape of the world around him. Working in both color and black and white, Makoto’s photographs have a strongly graphic quality and elegant balance that draw on the Japanese artistic tradition while maintaining a clearly contemporary vision.  Makoto’s photographs express a sense of hope and optimism in an unpredictable climate by capturing a rapidly evolving and fast-paced global community, thereby reconciling himself with his surroundings. 

For Makoto, photography is a deeply personal, spiritual experience, and each press of the camera shutter is akin to a prayer or wish.  He carefully selects and portrays his sleek images in an effort to communicate with the viewer and speak through visual means, directly the emotions, allowing the viewer to feel as part of something larger than himself.  Sasaki Makoto lives and works in Yokohama, Japan