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Yu Kawasaki is a photographer who continues to create domestic photographs and photographs with the themes of rural and suburban areas.
"Unfinished Surroundings," based on research conducted in Shingu City, Wakayama Prefecture, is an ambitious work that deconstructs the landscape of Kumano, known as a "sacred place,'' and questions the conditions for the establishment of "landscape photography." In his photo book, he expresses the concept of "incompletion" through the loop structure embodied by double-door composition and attempts to approach "landscape'' from two ways (parts).
The first part is a series of suburban landscapes that eliminate the vanity of Kumano as a "sacred place." In today's Japan, where landscapes are becoming increasingly suburbanized, the "typical landscape'' that Kawasaki found in Kumano can be said to be a representation of the ``landscape'' that many of us are trapped in and that is inherent in us.
The other part is a collection of "landscape photos" taken of Kumano's scenery from the window of a road bus. The photos taken during the approximately six-and-a-half-hour journey from Shingu to Yamato-Yagi have aberrations such as window frames at the edges, blur due to shaking, and strange gradations between the water surface and the window frames. I am. As a result, while at first glance, the photographs appear to fail as "landscape photographs,'' they are established as "photographs'' with a certain kind of beauty.
"Unfinished Surroundings," based on research conducted in Shingu City, Wakayama Prefecture, is an ambitious work that deconstructs the landscape of Kumano, known as a "sacred place,'' and questions the conditions for the establishment of "landscape photography." In his photo book, he expresses the concept of "incompletion" through the loop structure embodied by double-door composition and attempts to approach "landscape'' from two ways (parts).
The first part is a series of suburban landscapes that eliminate the vanity of Kumano as a "sacred place." In today's Japan, where landscapes are becoming increasingly suburbanized, the "typical landscape'' that Kawasaki found in Kumano can be said to be a representation of the ``landscape'' that many of us are trapped in and that is inherent in us.
The other part is a collection of "landscape photos" taken of Kumano's scenery from the window of a road bus. The photos taken during the approximately six-and-a-half-hour journey from Shingu to Yamato-Yagi have aberrations such as window frames at the edges, blur due to shaking, and strange gradations between the water surface and the window frames. I am. As a result, while at first glance, the photographs appear to fail as "landscape photographs,'' they are established as "photographs'' with a certain kind of beauty.