Naoya Hatakeyama- Blast
Context:
Naoya Hatakeyama is a Japanese photographer who was born in Iwate Prefecture in Japan in 1958. He graduated from the university of Tsukuba school of Art and Design and also completed postgraduate studies there in 1984.Naoya is interested in heightened tension that exists this century between human culture and nature.In his work named the lime work series and subsequent work he traced the transformation of the Japanese landscape which consisted of limestone cliffs to concrete cities which he offered a subtle and expansion meditation on the human consumption of nature. His work is included in the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and other museums .
Content:
These photographs are to demonstrate a blast .The photographer has captured the middle picture in a closeup composition to emphasise the hard concrete pieces falling apart using a fast shutter speed . There is also both lighter and darker tones presented in these pictures perhaps to create a sense of power in order to reinforce sound for the sense of hearing.
Concept:
I think the artwork is about assembling a body of work which explores the power and the relationship between nature and human because it reinforces that there could be a negative feeling between both and that they both have a differentiation in traits . For instance, humans are inferior whereas the nature is superior meaning that nature has the ability to cause harm towards the human culture. However, the message of his work is that the violence done to the rural landscape by extraction and rapid urban development has become two intertwined processes between humans and the nature.