Yasuhiro OGAWA
The Island
Apart from the larger main islands of the archipelago, there are about 300 inhabited islands in Japan. Most of them are tiny islands with small population of few hundreds, and almost of all inhabitants are elderly people. Those remote islands used to be vibrant with many inhabitants who were engaged in fishery and trading, but the islands’ population started to decline sharply just after the period of rapid economic growth in the 60’s and 70’s, thanks to the youngers who left the islands for seeking better jobs.
I suspect that most of those islands will be deserted in the near future. I overlooked the sea, sitting on the empty beach. I believe our ancestors also overlooked the same sea, sitting on the same place. The sea never changes. Only our human life does the change, which grows, matures, and dies out as time goes by (The title Simagatari means “talking about the islands”).
Small Size / Petit Format
Taille de papier : 27.6cm x 35.4cm
Taille d'image : 21cm x 31.5cm
Médium : Tirage argentique sur papier baryté
Edition : 20
Paper size : 27.6cm x 35.4
Image size : 21cm x 31.5cm
Medium : Gelatin silver print on baryta paper
Edition : 20
Big Size / Grand Format
Taille de papier : 40.6cm x 50.5cm
Taille d'image : 29.2cm x 43.2cm
Médium : Tirage argentique sur papier baryté
Edition : 20
Paper size : 40.6cm x 50.5cm
Image size : 29.2cm x 43.2cm
Medium : Gelatin silver print on baryta paper
Edition : 20
Yasuhiro Ogawa
1968 Born in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan.
2000 Received the Taiyo Award for Futashikana Chizu.
2006 Short listed for Oskar Barnack Award for China work.
2009 Received the Photographic Society of Japan’s Newcomer Award for Slowly Down the River (published by Creo).
Current Resides in Tokyo.
Winter
Taille de papier : 27.6cm x 35.4cm
Taille d'image : 21cm x 31.5cm
Médium : Tirage argentique sur papier baryté
Edition : 20
Paper size : 27.6cm x 35.4cm
Image size : 21cm x 31.5cm
Medium : Gelatin silver print on baryta paper
Edition : 20
