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Takashi Arai, 'Here and There': too far, too close to Fukushima

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posted on 2017-06-13, 08:27 authored by Marco Bohr
Produced in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on the 11th of March 2011, Takashi Arai’s photographic series ‘Here and There’ focuses on communities that are struggling to cope with the fallout of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. By using a plate camera and developing the images with the daguerreotype process, at first sight the photographs appear to represent scenes from a bygone era – perhaps to a time when Japan began to open its closed borders to the West in the mid-19th century. Yet the beauty and nostalgia evoked by the daguerreotypes is quickly overshadowed by the realization that Arai’s work also alludes to an uncertain and perhaps even hostile future as the land he photographed is poisoned for many more decades to come.

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  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • Arts

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Source Photographic Review

Issue

80

Citation

BOHR, M., 2014. Takashi Arai, 'Here and There': too far, too close to Fukushima. Source: Photographic Review, 80.

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Photoworks North

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

ISSN

1369-2224

Language

  • en

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