Video: Extraordinary pictures of victims of the earthquake in Japan
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Tsunami and earthquake that hit Japan in March 2011, brought catastrophic destruction to the entire country. A small fishing town was hit hardest by the disaster Otsuchi, 60% of its territory was completely destroyed. Argentine photographer Alejandro Haskilberg presented a series of works "Otsuchi Future Memory"depicting people on the ruins of their homes.
Alejandro Chaskielberg heard about the earthquake-hit town of Otsuchi while at an exhibition of his works in Tokyo in 2012. He decided to go to that place to personally see the consequences of the destruction. When the photographer arrived there, he found ruins of buildings there, markings that indicated where the victims and large heaps of rubbish were found.
Since the town is small, the photographer was able to easily find people whose houses were destroyed. Most of them live in temporary container housing. After talking with local residents, Alejandro Haskilberg came up with the idea to capture them on the ruins of their own homes.
At the very beginning of the project, Chaskielberg found an old wet photo album lying on the side of the road. Slowly separating the sheets from each other, the photographer found that all the pictures were blurred. He noted that there was a strong smell from that object, it seemed that a dying animal was lying in front of him.
That photo album made such a strong impression on the artist that it later became the basis of his series "Otsuchi Future Memory". First, Haskilberg photographed people in black and white, and then took one of the blurry landscape shots, digitally processed and superimposed images of people on it. Thanks to this contrast, the artist managed to achieve an almost surreal effect.
In the Chinese city of Beichuan on May 12, 2008, there was a terrible earthquake, as a result of which it was literally wiped off the face of the earth. Today, Beichuan has been "mothballed" and turned into open-air museum.
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