Signed; Atsushi FUJIWARA - Nangokusho - 2013

Atsushi Fujiwara 跟随祖父的脚步穿过日本南部，受名为 Nangokusho 的短歌诗集指引。

在“Nangokusho”里有一种抒情的孤独感，对失去根源的追寻，Atsushi 的目光把诗句转译成视觉意象，他追逐看不见的、早已逝去的东西。

在空荡的街道、铁路和后院之间缓慢漫游，Nangokusho 是对日本南部土地的沉默颂歌。

“The photographs speak for themselves. In the critique of photography, I make it a general rule to comment on the background from which the photographs arose.

If these were paintings, the past might be portrays from memory or imagination, but as regard this collection, photography will capture only what is currently there.

Today, Kagoshima and beautiful Okinawa are dramatically different from how Tohmon (nd: art-name of Atsushi’s grandfather) saw them, and there is nothing remaining of that now.

Fujiwara Atsushi undertook to pursue sceneries that no longer exist. If the reader should sense a certain emptiness from these photographs, this must be understood to be the emptiness of post-war Japan.”

Extract from Akira Hasegawa’s afterword.

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