<- BACK

Photographer | Retouch Artist

Yoshi Kono

Born and raised in Japan. Working closely with fashion and music labels, PR agencies for brand image and artist promos that have been used across a number of magazines as well as the international press, also regularly contributes fashion editorials and celebrity portraits to a range of publications.

“WHEN I TAKE PICTURES, I LIKE TO SEE SOME POISON IN YOU”

When the reply comes, we just look at each other and smile. “Are you ok to travel to Camden Town?” Of all places in London, Yoshi suggests Camden. So now it’s certain – the magic is going to happen again.  It surely did happen for us in Koko Camden, a stunning club, where LP played her phenomenal tour-closing show in April.

The three of us meet at the underground station and we struggle to find any reasonably quiet place to talk. It’s July 1st, a day before yet another of LP’s shows in London. Finally, we manage to find a table outside the café. We try to be cool. We’re not journalists or photographers. And we’re about to interview Yoshitaka Kono, the man who blew us away with his photos of LP for 1883 Magazine.

February 2017. LP is in between her two European tours and she visits London for a few days. She talks to the press, she’s being shot for different magazines, and she plays live at the radio stations. One of her stops is The Woods bar, styled a la Twin Peaks’ red room, where she is interviewed by 1883 Magazine and where she meets Yoshi and gets up in front of his camera. The shoot gets published at the beginning of March and we are amazed by the outcome. It’s obvious that LP is a graceful object to shoot, with her rockstar aura, strength and coolness. Most photographers go straight for it, while Yoshi did the opposite thing, to an absolutely smashing effect, and we simply had to talk to him about it.

<- BACK