Friday, 25 November 2011

Naoya Hatakeyama

I have included some examples from this series of work titled River series/shadow because when reading about it in the book Art Photography Now - Susan Bright, i was really inspired by the way he speaks about the work;

"i feel invisible in the city. in it i find primitive signs left by human beings which my camera leads me to. i was working of this series from 2001 until 2003 and there are nine images in total. I found the city lights reflecting on the river surface and it looked so nostalgic to me. it was interesting to learn that even with long exposures the reflections looked still. When i focused my 4x5 camera, i could see the reflection of Tokyo. The images look upside down, but they are not - it's the reflection. I felt as if i were a fish, looking up at Tokyo from under the water. I worked at night with a ten-minute exposure and found that the expression of the water different each time i visited, because the riverbed changes by season, and if there is a flood."
                                         (Page 198 - Art Photography Now)


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