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Hakanai Sonzai

Text : Michel Poivert, historien de la photographie
Publisher : Atelier EXB
Release date: : 2023
ISBN : 978-2-36511-382-3
Size : 24,5 × 32,5 cm
Language: French
184 pages
80 B&W and colour photographs

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Continuing his photographic work on resilience, Pierre-Elie de Pibrac travels to Japan in 2020, a country that experienced the Fukushima tsunami, and where the inhabitants are less forthcoming about their emotions, their psychological and intimate concerns. He set out to criss-cross the region and meet the people whose lives have been turned upside down by the earthquake. The photographer creates portraits in natural light, like mental images told by the subjects themselves and imagined by the artist. These color scenes, where time seems suspended, are punctuated by B&W images evoking nature and the impermanence of things. An essay by Michel Poivert explores this corpus, associating the obsolescence of the photographic medium with that of our modern societies, with Japan at the heart of the drifts of the Anthropocene.