yuko sato::photography

COVER GALLERY

ABOUT YUKO

Photographer Yuko Sato brings a unique vision to her work that reveals an impressive range. She explores fashion and cultural subjects with creativity and passion, yet looks for more profound meaning in her subjects by exploring art and religious themes.

Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Yuko Sato is a dedicated traveler. She has spent time in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Russia, Siberia, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Australia, the Caribbean Islands and several European countries.

Yuko moved to Hong Kong in 1998 and called it home for four years. She has been working and living in Shanghai, China, since early 2002. Yuko speaks fluent English, Mandarin and Japanese.

Yuko contributes regularly to City Weekend, a Shanghai-based English lifestyle magazine, snapped photos for German magazine Max and the Japanese publication Shanghai Walker. Crazy night life shots, Chinese fashion shows, the art scene, Christian churches and stained glass works are but a few areas Yuko has set out to photograph.

Still, she finds time to work on more personal projects. Yuko branched out into artistic photography with an exhibition titled "Afternoon Dreaming" in October 2003. Nine women, all living in Shanghai, were asked to fantasize about what they wanted to be. Yuko took their vision and made it reality for one afternoon by designing the costumes, background and make up. The fantasy portraits helped reveal a different dimension of each woman.

Less than a month later, Yuko Sato was in the spotlight again with another exhibition (reviewed by Adam Minter). This one titled "Triptych Me" expressed various emotions the photographer has experienced and reveals a new way of looking at the bustling, and constantly changing, metropolis Shanghai.

Yuko's latest project has been to document the work and life of three Chinese Christian nuns and the first Chinese stained glass artist who works for a church in Shanghai.

CLIENT LIST

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Kodak(Camera)
Sony(Digital Video)
Yamaha(Flute and Trumpet)
Dalie(Toothpast)
Fuji Xerox China

Corporate Client:
Yongfoo Elite (Interior and Food)
Coca Thai Restaurant (Food)
Club Shanghai Restaurant (Interior, Food and Chef Portraits)
Westin Shanghai Hotel (Interior, Chefs and GM Portrait)
FTP Sevills (PR Photographs)
Les Agapes (Chinese Lantan, lamps)
Madam Zung (Interior, Food, PR and NightClub)

Editorial:
Elle Decoration (China) - Art, Interior, Feature Story
Max (Germany) - Night Life in Shanghai
Art News(New York) - Antique Culture in Shanghai
Commonweal (The United States) - New Leadership of Christian Nuns 
MINIInternational (Germany) - Art Scene in Shanghai
Volkskrant (Netherland) - Art, Christmas Scene in Shanghai
CASS (Switzerland) - Documentary of Foreign plant in Shanghai
Shanghai Walker (Japan) - Food, Restaurant, Portrait for Feature Story 
That’s Shanghai(China) - Art Scene
City Weekend(China) - Art, Fashion and Culture for Feature Story
Voyage (France) - Stained Glass Story in Shanghai
QUO(China) - Underground Music Scene in Shanghai.

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