Japan Through His Eyes Kayleigh Barber Photo 100

Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1962 Studied photography at the Nihon University College of Art His first photography job was as an in-house photographer for an advertising agency in Tokyo In 1991 he moved to London and worked for i-D Magazine as a photographer In 1998 he completed his first major work titled Tokyo Suburbia for which he won the Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award in 1999 Following his series, Tokyo Suburbia, he has gone on to create works such as Tokyo and My Daughter, New Waves, and Mushrooms From the Forest A BRIEF BACKGROUND

TOKYO SUBURBIA 1998

“Most Japanese photographers only take photos, they are not concerned about what happens afterward. But I always think about the editing process. For example, in the “Tokyo and My Daughter” series there are some pictures of a little girl displayed among others of landscapes. The original girl pictures were not actually taken by me. They are like “found photos.” They were taken by the girl’s real parents and were in a family album that I photographed. I then displayed those pictures alongside my own landscapes. That mixture of images is key to the editing process and how I present my work to the public.” – Takashi Homma TOKYO AND MY DAUGHTER 2006

NEW WAVES

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The earthquake and subsequent tsunami of March 11th, 2011, near Japan’s Tohoku region, led to the catastrophic equipment failures and nuclear disaster of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Six Months later, on September 15th, the Japanese government prohibited the gathering and ingestion of any mushrooms grown in the forty-three cities of Fukushima prefecture. Traces of radiation exceeding safety limits were detected in some wild mushroom varieties. Fungi inherently absorb radiation much more rapidly than other organisms. My Geiger counter detected a greatly elevated level of radiation in the lush forests of Fukushima when compared to the region’s urban areas. The wild mushrooms in the photographs assembled here are from those forests.” – Takashi Homma MUSHROOMS FROM THE FOREST 2011

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