Bryan Schutmaat, from the series ‘Grays the Mountain Sends’, 2013 In his series ‘Grays the Mountain Sends’, Bryan Schutmaat has photographed small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West. The photographs are subtle and evocative representations of the everyday, while the people and the landscapes in them look rugged, worn out, perhaps even…
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…