found: Wikipedia, May 16, 2017(Masao Yamamoto; Masao Yamamoto (山本昌男, born 1957) is a Japanese freelance photographer known for his small photographs, which seek to individualize the photographic prints as objects; he was born in Gamagori City in Aichi Prefecture, Japan; he began his art studies as a painter, studying oil painting under Goro Saito in his native city; he presently uses photography to capture images evoking memories; he blurs the border between painting and photography by experimenting with printing surfaces; he dyes, tones (with tea), paints on, and tears his photographs; his subjects include still-lives, nudes, and landscapes; he also makes installation art with his small photographs to show how each print is part of a larger reality)
