Michael Corridore, from the series ‘Angry Black Snake’, 2011 The Australian photographer Michael Corridore produced a haunting series of photographs titled ‘Angry Black Snake’ which puts into the question the notion of the spectacle. For this work Corridore traveled to outdoor events, many of them related to motor sport, to focus not as much on…
Naoya Hatakeyama, Yoneasaki-cho 2011.5.1, from the series Rikuzentakata, 2011; chromogenic print; courtesy the artist and Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; © Naoya Hatakeyama The renown photographer Naoya Hatakeyama recalls a strange and unsettling experience on the day that Japan was hit by a triple disaster. At the moment the earthquake struck Japan, Hatakeyama attended a pre-arranged…
In his series ‘Disaster and Silence’ (Ihen to Chinmoku), the photographer Tasuku Amada has found an intriguing and equally compelling method to address the psychological effects of Japan’s triple disaster from March 2011 (herein referred to as 3.11). In this body of work, Amada combined banal and everyday depictions of a street with images of…