Here and There - Tomorrow's Islands (2011-)
There are as yet no words to depict Fukushima. And we will never find them anywhere, because they arise from every fine detail and gradually and quietly diffuse into our souls. Photography plays contradictory roles in conveying “reality”of a distant place to us, and dividing the places, events and people captured in images from our daily lives. How could we see and listen to Fukushima without turning it into a naive symbol? This unresolved contradiction became my motivation to expand communication with Fukushima and the surrounding areas, such as Shimokita Peninsula.
ヒア・アンド・ゼア ── 明日の島 (2011-)
福島について語る言葉を、わたしたちはいまだ持たない。そしてその言葉は、どこからも決して到来しないだろう。その言葉はあらゆる細部から生まれ、声低くわたしたちの魂のなかに、それと知れず拡散していくものだからだ。 写真は、遠く隔たった場所の「現実」を伝えるとともに、写された場所、出来事や人々を、わたしたちの生活から分断する役割を担ってきた。福島を「フクシマ」へと書き換え、無害無毒な象徴へと囲い込むことなく、どうやって写し聴くことができるのか。解きえないこうした矛盾が、福島とその周縁に、たとえば下北半島に、往復運動を拡張する衝動となった。
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April 26, 2011. Onahama

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

April 25, 2011. Miharu No.2

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

July 25, Iitate village, Fukushima.

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum collection

December 23rd, 2011. A Stray Dog, Haramachi, Minamisoma, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm. Galerie Camera Obscura collection.

July 25, 2011. Radioactive Lilies, Iitate Village, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 10, 2012. Familymart, Matsukawaura, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 10, 2012. Fishermen at work, Sadaaki Endo and Mitsuru Tokura, Matsukawaura, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 12, 2012. Check Point, Kawauchi Village, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 16, 2012. Nitta river, Minamisoma, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 11, Kashima, Minamisoma, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 17, 2012. Farmers at Work, Minamisoma, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

June 23, 2012. Pachinko Parlor Dia, Onomachi"

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 18, 2012. Soma Pony Farm, Akira Harada and Sadahiro Maeda, Minamisoma

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 19, 2012. Toru Anzai at his Temporary Housing, Date, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm. Musée de l'Élysée collection.

February 19, 2012. Mother and daughter, Fukushima.

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

February 16th, 2012. Mother and daughter at Yumenoshima Park, Tokyo

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum collection

January 4, 2014. The New Year parade of fire brigades, Haranomachi, Minamisoma

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

May 25, 2012． Persimmon Trees with Those Skins Stripped Away for Trial Decontamination, Tsukidate, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

June 27, 2012. Katsuhiko Watabe, Repairing Fishing Boats, Kashima, Minamisoma"

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

February 14, 2015. Guest House Yume Tabito, Kashima-ku, Minamisoma

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

June 26, 2012. High school students on their way home, Haranomachi, Minamisoma

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

March 12, 2013. Koyu Abe, chief priest of Joen Temple, and collected barrels of radioactive waste in his private propaty, Yamaguchi, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 20, 2012. Farmers burning off rice field, Kabaniwa, Soma, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

February 13, 2015. Naraha-cho, Decontamination site

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 27, 2016. The sun, Rokkasho village, Aomori

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 27, 2016. Seiko 5000, Rokkasho village, Aomori

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 27, 2016. A fallen cherry tree and Keiko Kikukawa, Rokkasho village, Aomori

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 30, 2016. A horse dozing, Shiriyazaki, Aomori

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 31, 2016, Sarugamori, Higashidori Village

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

Jan 30, 2016. Higashidori Nuclear Power Station, Higashidori Vilage, Aomori

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

January 29, 2016. Marinera, Tanabe, Mutsu-shi, Aomori

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

February 2, 2016. Oma Nuclear Power Station, Oma, Aomori

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

February 2, 2016. Shigetada Kimura, A Descendant of Tonami Clan, Oma, Aomori

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

February 2, 2016. Oma, Aomori

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

July 24, 2016. Sunflowers, Yamakoya, Fukushima

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

September 2, 2016, Miri Yu, Honjin-yama, Haranomachi, Minamisoma

Daguerreotype, 25.2 x 19.3 cm

February 11, 2015. Mt. Banda No.1i, Inawashiro