Barbara Yoshida is an adventurous traveler and photographer who fills her backpack with tent, sleeping bag, large format camera, film and tripod, then sets out to photograph natural forms, spiritual locations and women artists in countries from Sweden, throughout Europe to the Ukraine, Armenia, Israel, Morocco, The Gambia, Japan, and Mongolia. She picked up a camera after twenty years as a painter and six years making sculpture, and spent several years doing printmaking, using photo processes. A half-dozen artist’s residencies for the National Park Service resulted in a series of color landscapes as well as a series of photogravure prints. Following ten years of photographing Neolithic standing stones in moonlight, her first book was produced: Moon Viewing: Megaliths by Moonlight, published by Marquand Books in 2014.
A long-term project is a portrait series of women artists. Since 1990 she has documented over a hundred women in their studios and homes. Feeling the need to create a sense of community, She is creating a project that is inclusive. The artists span several generations and work in a variety of styles, they come from various countries, and there are no distinctions between fine art and craft.
Her most notable one-person exhibition featured 80 women artists’ portraits at the National Museum of Poland; during that same year she was selected by Joyce Tenneson for “The View Project” at Naples Museum of Art in Florida. Her photogravures were shown at Atelier Lacouriere Frelaut in Paris and seven large prints were featured at Southeast Museum of Photography in Florida. Her work appears in Night and Low-Light Photography: Professional Techniques from Experts for Artistic and Commercial Success.
She is represented in various collections including Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark; Southeast Museum of Photography; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum; The Huntington Gardens Art Collection; Polaroid Corporation; and Light Work.
She received her M.A. at Hunter College, and her B.A. at University of Washington. She is a former Light Work, Ucross, Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Atlantic Center for the Arts (selected by Graciela Iturbide), and two-time MacDowell fellow.
