Paris –

From architect Kengo Kuma’s recent Ace Hotel Kyoto project to the Chandigarh Capitol Complex in India, Los Angeles-based photographer Yoshihiro Makino, 44, travels the world to capture spaces that we can now only dream of visiting due to pandemic-era restrictions.

The art of spaces: Photographer Yoshihiro Makino photographs a lot of interiors and says Japanese architecture can teach us about the way we use space. | COURTESY OF YOSHIHIRO MAKINO
The art of spaces: Photographer Yoshihiro Makino photographs a lot of interiors and says Japanese architecture can teach us about the way we use space. | COURTESY OF YOSHIHIRO MAKINO

1. What’s your earliest memory? Watching 8-mm projection images against the fusuma (sliding door) wall in my home with my family. My grandfather was an amateur photographer, and I remember watching vacation photos and the clicking projector.