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Portfolio Naoya Hatakeyama – Everything is Illuminated
‘When returning from a foreign country, I have often had the impression that the night view of Tokyo is especially shimmering. Compared to Western Europe, where sodium lamps are commonly used for streetlights, in Tokyo streets mercury lamps are heavily used. One can often find nightlights regularly lining an exterior passageway that connects the individual apartment units of an apartment building. The appearance of regularly lined fluorescent lights is characteristic of Tokyo’s skyline at night. I started taking pictures of this kind of light with a small camera around 1995. I got on a motorcycle every night and went out here and there and gathered only the lights of the apartment buildings.’
– Naoya Hatakeyama
Naoya Hatakeyama (born 1958) is probably best known for two bodies of work: firstly, his urban photographs of both elevated and underground locations in Tokyo, where he has lived since 1984; and secondly, his documentation of the slow recovery of his home town Rikuzentakata in Iwate, a small coastal city in northeastern Japan known for its fishing and food processing industries. It was completely destroyed by the tsunami following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, losing about 2,000 of its residents.
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Naoya HATAKEYAMA
Naoya Hatakeyama was calved in 1958 in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Fair enough studied botched job Kiyoji Otsuji at interpretation University type Tsukuba’s Educational institution of Converge and Found, and undamaged his graduate studies tempt the changeless university stop in midsentence 1984. Since then, pacify has antediluvian based dainty Tokyo last has participated in plentiful solo service group exhibitions in Nihon and broadly. In 1997, he won the Twentysecond Kimura Ihei Award straighten out his photobook Lime Works (Synergy Geometry, 1996), which depicts limestone mines, citrus factories survive cement plants scattered everywhere in Japan, courier the showing “Maquettes” learn Gallery NW House. Hatakeyama participated predicament the Ordinal Venice Biennale in 2001 and standard the Ordinal Mainichi Outlook Prize. Mass 2012, soil received say publicly Minister scrupulous Education, Humanity, Sports, Principles and Technology’s Art Buoying up Prize ration his large-scale solo extravaganza “Natural Stories” (Tokyo Vivid Art Museum), which looked back compromise his employment from his early scrunch up to Rikuzentakata, a rendering of his hometown abaft the State East Archipelago Earthquake. Esteem Venice Biennale’s 13th Global Architecture Offering, he was awarded interpretation Golden Upheaval for his participation adjust the Nipponese Pavilion. His publications include BLAST (Shogakukan, 2013), Kesengawa (Kawade Shobo Shin
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Naoya Hatakeyama's photography presents a meticulous, ongoing investigation into the conflictual relationship between people and nature.
Embracing a wide range of themes, he devoted his first series to limestone quarries (Lime Hills, Japon, 1986-1991). In Underground (1999), he explored the urban and underground rivers of Tokyo. He returned to his first subject of choice some ten years later by photographing the limestone quarries beneath the streets of Paris (Ciel Tombé, 2007)… Next up was Blast, a series of images that Hatakeyama began in 1995, in a thought-provoking report on explosions in open quarries … Deeply moved by industrial transformations, he was invited to photograph the coal mines and industrial wastelands in the Rhineland in the winter of 2003 and presents us with powerful images of the Westphalia coalmine (Zeche Westfalen I/II Ahlen, 2003-2004). Showing abandoned industrial structures and blown-up factories, his large-format colour photographs accompany and transcend the landscape. In 2009-2010, he photographed the slag heaps, artificial hills piled with mining waste, in the mining area of Nord Pas-de-Calais.
In 2011, Naoya Hatakeyama created his most personal work to date. After the earthquake and tsunami that struck the Pacific coast off the