‘Infinity Complex Landscape’: Between Silence and Conflict - Yoshie Itasaka on People and Places in Ukraine

In Infinity Complex Landscape, Yoshie Itasaka approaches a chapter of history that reaches far beyond mere landscape imagery. The book is a deeply personal, clear-eyed, and empathetic reflection on a country in transition.

Over the course of several years, the photographer traveled throughout Ukraine, encountering places, people, and moments shaped by conflict, loss, and tensions of identity. Through her intimate travel diary, Itasaka seeks to foster a deeper understanding of the post-Soviet era and the region’s complex historical fabric.

Rather than straightforward documentation, the result is a visual diary capturing moments that are both delicate and emotionally charged - a balance of elegance, stillness, and the palpable complexity of space and memory.

“Many of today’s problems in Europe stem from the discrepancy between memory and history. Historical narratives are often constructed to justify the present, especially in young independent nations where ‘history’ can even become a tool of national security policy. My aim is to confront these tensions, not to explain them away.” Yoshie Itasaka

Infinity Complex Landscape challenges us to view history not as a fixed legacy, but as an intricate weave of personal and collective experience - a book that invites reflection, where each photograph resonates far beyond the image itself.

The publication also includes a text by Professor Kimitaka Matsuzato, one of the leading scholars in the field of post-Soviet history and politics.

Exhibition: Infinity Complex Landscape

Concurrent with KEHRER Publishing Special Feature Month at POST Tokyo