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Fuminori Sato "Rokkoku"
Reminders Photography Stronghold
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Fuminori Sato
Fuminori Sato participated in the Photobook Master Class Workshop, a photography book production workshop held in 2018, and has been working on the production of this work.
Almost two years after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, Sato visited the Tsushima district of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, which in principle was off-limits due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. A sleepy mountain village that looked like a ghost town. What he saw there were not only forests and uninhabited houses contaminated with high concentrations of radioactive biological materials. The homes of the furloughed people I accompanied were in a state of disrepair, having been ravaged by wild animals that had broken through the kitchen door and invaded. Nevertheless, life before the evacuation remained intact: a pillar clock that stopped at 1:48:46, a child's calligraphy that read "lol," and a "letter of consolation" from the Japanese government stating that the family had been interned in Siberia. The history of three generations of the family was engraved in the house.
The people of Tsushima are at the mercy of the past "war" and the present "nuclear power plant" by the national government. It seemed as if the past and the present intersected and existed simultaneously, transcending time. The photo exhibition consists of photographs taken with a hint of that strange feeling Sato had in Tsushima. In conjunction with this exhibition, the photo book "Rokkoku" will be published.
Almost two years after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, Sato visited the Tsushima district of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, which in principle was off-limits due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. A sleepy mountain village that looked like a ghost town. What he saw there were not only forests and uninhabited houses contaminated with high concentrations of radioactive biological materials. The homes of the furloughed people I accompanied were in a state of disrepair, having been ravaged by wild animals that had broken through the kitchen door and invaded. Nevertheless, life before the evacuation remained intact: a pillar clock that stopped at 1:48:46, a child's calligraphy that read "lol," and a "letter of consolation" from the Japanese government stating that the family had been interned in Siberia. The history of three generations of the family was engraved in the house.
The people of Tsushima are at the mercy of the past "war" and the present "nuclear power plant" by the national government. It seemed as if the past and the present intersected and existed simultaneously, transcending time. The photo exhibition consists of photographs taken with a hint of that strange feeling Sato had in Tsushima. In conjunction with this exhibition, the photo book "Rokkoku" will be published.
Schedule | Sep 2 (Sat) 2023-Sep 10 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Sep 2 (Sat) 2023 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://reminders-project.org/rps/fuminorisatojp/ | ||||
| Venue | Reminders Photography Stronghold https://reminders-project.org/rps/ | ||||
| Location | 2-38-5 Higashi Mukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 131-0032 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from Keisei Hikifune Station on the Keisei Oshiage line, 7 minute walk from Hikifune Station on the Tobu Isesaki and Kameido lines. | ||||
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