Like a Zen master, Japanese photographer Yamamoto Masao approaches his work with an “active passiveness.” He is active in his observations of Nature, but passive in his understanding that he is an inextricable part of Nature itself.  Living in a forest, he photographically “harvests” what he calls “treasures breathing quietly in nature.”  For Yamamoto, the act of making a photograph is like picking up a rock on the beach and holding the universe in your hands.  For his eighth exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery, Yamamoto will be premiering his latest body of work utilizing the 19th century Ambrotype photographic process.  As the artist states, “The fluidity of this collodion process shows us an accidental and unknown world.  I feel the time has rewound and I am traveling back to the origin of photography.”  Yamamoto will also be exhibiting new works from his Tomosu series, a word which means “to illuminate, or to put a little light in the darkness.”