Naoya Hatakeyama’s work portrays human intervention with landscapes of the world with and natural materials e.g. the life of cities and the built environment. His work mostly encircles the topics of nature, the city and photography.

His first proper piece of work was Lime Hills- which was a collection of images of limestone quarries throughout Japan. He described the experience as “my appreciation of its cityscapes underwent a subtle change.” due to the fact he came to realisation that Japan was a land of limestones. These are some photos of his limestone photographs from 1986-1990

My Favourites and Why.

I particularly like this photo of Yonesakisho-Donomae which was taken in 2011, this captures the havoc that was caused by The Great East Japan earthquake, and was recorded as the largest ever earthquake in the country. This earthquake killed 20,000 people and causes 10,000 people to be homeless, I feel this is particularly inspiring as Hatakeyama’s photograph captures a completely submerged home, surrounded by waste and wood, this shows the severity of the situation and shows a direct approach on how it affected the residents lives. There is also a boat of people (4), who are seen to be travelling across the wreckage, they could possibly be looking for people, transporting or seeing the damage that has been caused.

URBAN LANDSCAPES PHOTOSHOOT.

Potential Locations to Photograph.

• Front doors on the street
• Cracks in the pavement
• Puddles with bright reflections
• Fences and walls
• Stairs
• Colours of all the cars in the supermarket car park
• Telegraph poles viewed from below
• Cars driving on the road in the rain
• Industrial structures
• Tall lit up structures and buildings

My Naoya Hatakeyama Inspired Photoshoot.