[1] Her work in recent years has been included in At The Window (2013, The Photographer’s View, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles); The Other Portrait (2013, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto); and Talent Show (2012, MoMA PS1, New York, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Florida).
[2] The conditions under which Yokomizo captures the image are essential to her work—she states, “[m]any people will call me a photographer, but I don’t think of myself as one...“I chose the medium of photography because it allowed me to visualize my perspective and I wanted to confirm my existence and verify the state of my being in those places.” [3] Exploring “the gap between self and other; the space that exists between ‘me’ and ‘you,’" Yokomizo's work is often a "contrast to the merciless ‘stare’ of documentary photography," seeking to "reproduce a strong sense of reciprocity, and an awareness of one’s own presence in relation to another.” [4] Yokomizo initiated her series Stranger in an attempt to further investigate these relationships, leaving anonymous letters in the mailboxes of first-floor apartments around England.
An excerpt from the letter reads, “I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening.
If you do not mind being photographed, please stand in the room and look into the camera through the window for 10 minutes… I will NOT knock on your door to meet you.
We will remain strangers to each other.” [5] Her work often addresses ideas of “distance and intimacy, anonymity and exposure, collaboration and control, surveillance and exhibitionism,” [6] focusing on the "moment of exchange with the subject.