boards and debris in water with a roof and top part of a building in middle ground center; four people wearing white outfits and hats with orange life jackets in a small raft with a red and white flag in ULQ

%C2%A9 Naoya Hatakeyama

2011.5.1 Yonesaki-cho, 2011

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The seven photographs from the series Rikuzentakata were shot in Hatakeyama’s hometown, Rikuzentakata, a small fisherman’s village, facing the Pacific Ocean, in Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. They were taken over a three-year period, after it was almost completely destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. For most of his career, Hatakeyama has captured the metamorphosis of cities (Tokyo, where he resides, and Rikuzentakata, Iwate, in northern Japan where he grew up) including their birth, maturity, death and rebirth. These photographs are particularly poignant because they represent not only his long-standing interest in this cycle, but also because they are biographical in representing the destruction and re-emergence of his home town.

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Title
2011.5.1 Yonesaki-cho
Artist Life
born 1958
Role
Photographer
Accession Number
2017.13.1
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boards and debris in water with a roof and top part of a building in middle ground center; four people wearing white outfits and hats with orange life jackets in a small raft with a red and white flag in ULQ

© Naoya Hatakeyama

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