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NAOYA HATAKEYAMA

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 18, 2018
The art of architecture and photography
The current exhibition at Archi-Depot, 'A Gaze into Architecture: Phases of Contemporary Photography and Architecture' features the work of 13 artists, of whom more than half are Japanese. All the work is exceptional.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 4, 2018
A cloven landscape, a cloven tree, a cloven self
On a recent trip to Tohoku, photographer Naoya Hatakeyama took a picture of a tree. It wasn't a particularly remarkable tree, but it caught his attention all the same.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 7, 2015
The problems and pleasure of publishing the horrors of the 3/11 tsunami
At a symposium on "Trauma and Utopia" held in Tokyo in October 2014, photographer Naoya Hatakeyama talked about his work in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, a disaster that killed his mother and destroyed his home in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. During this, he acknowledged that the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami had taken 230,000 lives, more than 10 times as many as were taken as a result of 3/11, and yet these victims were not in the public consciousness in the same way as the Japanese disaster, nominally because the Japanese mass media were adept at keeping the memory of 3/11 alive. This was rather clumsily translated by the interpreter as being a sign of the admiration of Japanese culture around the world and the "powerful" Japanese media, rather than the more ambivalent point that Hatakeyama was expressing about the obscurity into which the lives of nearly a quarter of a million people had disappeared.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 19, 2014
Deep feelings at high altitudes
The photographs, taken by artist Naoya Hatakeyama, hint at both the beauty and dangers of a mountain, as reflected in the shades of light and darkness alongside textures of soft-edged snow and sharply lined rocks.

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