Max Fujishima “Wish You Were Here - Sakura, The Viewing Season”

Gallery MAX New York

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More than 50 photographs will be displayed in this exhibition.

These were shot between 2014 and 2015 in Tohoku, Japan where the great earthquake hit six years ago. When he stood in front of Sakura cherry blossoms, “my legs were shaking”, he says. And he couldn’t believe Sakura, “was so bright and so energetic” even though the place was hit by a “once in 100 years” disaster. “I wasn’t sure I could photograph them as art,” he recalls.

He didn’t give up. And he visited Tohoku two years in a row, capturing hundreds of timeless and elegant Sakura blossoms. “Maybe we can learn something from Tohoku’s Sakura.” he says.