NYAB Event - Takahiro Kaneyama "Shumafura"

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At MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects
Media: Photography

Takahiro Kaneyama's latest series of color photographs, portrays a small fishing town called Shimofuro. Called Shumafura in the Ainu native language, Shimofuro is located on the northern tip of Honshu, Japan's main island, where the artist visited briefly last summer. At first glance, the paved roads, concrete buildings, and modern infrastructures may obscure the reality that the area is fast becoming a depopulated and graying society. Kaneyama's great uncle (his beloved grandmother's younger brother) has worked there all his life as a fisherman. Although the two had never met before, the process of taking photographs became a form of a dialogue that dissolved the distance between them, forging a new relationship.

[Image: Takahiro Kaneyama "Kettles" (2008) chromogenic print]

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