synopsis
The book Terrils is the first book, published in French and by a French publisher, by Naoya Hatakeyama. The origin of the word "terril" is quite mysterious and divides historians. Its sonic force represents the extracted, raised earth. Like blocks of memory, their silhouettes punctuate the landscape of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining basin.
An artist sensitive to geographical and industrial transformations, Naoya Hatakeyama crisscrossed these large spaces at sky level in 2009. A photographer of precision, he takes a stunning journey between the black mountains. Following him, he leads us through the mastery of lights, framing, in his profound images that evoke other worlds, Canada, Iceland, the Camargue ... The slag heap, often ignored or bypassed, takes back the central place in the landscapes transmitted by Naoya Hatakeyama. Standing on the flat country, it acts as a call, an imaginary surge.
The book Terrils follows Naoya Hatekayama’s stay in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining basin in 2009-2010, at the initiative of the Les Lieux collective which organized and financed the photographer’s artistic residency. The Lewarde Mining History Center then produced and created the exhibition “Les voici, Colosses, photographies de Naoya Hatakeyama” from February 1 to March 21, 2010.
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Publisher : Editions Light Motiv
2011
98 pages
43 photos
dimensions : 25 x 30 cm
2011
98 pages
43 photos
dimensions : 25 x 30 cm
about Naoya Hatakeyama
Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji, completed graduate studies at Tsukuba University in 1984. Since then, Hatakeyama has been based in Tokyo, a city which has served as a model from which he has developed a body of work concerned largely with the relationship between nature, the city and photography. In addition to his participation in numerous solo and group exhibitions, Hatakeyama’s photographs are found in public collections including the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur; la Maison EuropEéenne de la Photographie, Paris; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
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Publisher : Editions Light Motiv
2011 (1st edition)
2011 (1st edition)