Shozaburo Ishida "Nights, Walking: Chigasaki"

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Shozaburo Ishida

Shozaburo Ishida began his career as a photographer in 2018 with the release of his photography book “Radiation Buscape.” Since then, he has consistently exhibited his work, mainly at IG Photo Gallery, which he runs. Ishida's interest in the infrastructure that supports human life has been consistent since “Radiation Buscape,” a series of a landscape images shot from the window of a bus traveling through an area rendered uninhabitable by the Great East Japan Earthquake and power plant accident. On the other hand, the buses continue to run. Time has not stopped for the scenery outside the window either; plants are growing and buildings are decaying. It can be said that this work looks at the fragility of our society and the way the world continues to turn.

Ishida continued to explore the relationships of nuclear-generated electric power and human beings in "Crossing Ray" (2019). In "Integral" (2021), the relationship between the city and electricity is again the subject, with an abstract representation of urban lights using a pinhole camera. For "Nights, Walking: Chigasaki," Ishida left the center of the city and photographed the night in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. Ishida describes this series as "one of a group of works on the theme of landscapes created by electric light. While much of the light that illuminates urban areas is consumed for commercial purposes, the light in residential areas is more closely connected to the lives of individual people.” By moving his perspective from the city to the suburbs, Ishida is reexamining the meaning of electricity in our daily lives.

Schedule

Apr 5 (Tue) 2022-Apr 30 (Sat) 2022