Daisaku OOZU: Invisiblescapes 

Daisaku OOZU "Deathly silence in heavily-polluted area" Iitate, Fukushima March 2012 from "INVISIBLESCAPES" (c) daisaku oozu/galerie son

Images from Fukushima and all parts of Japan

The photographer Daisaku Oozu, who has studied both photography in Osaka and philosophy in Kyoto and now lives in Yokohama, has hitherto placed the emphasis of his work on the depiction of landscape, sea and light. In his newest exhibition in galerie son he again takes them up, but in conjunction with the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima. Since 2009 it is of special concern to him to convey his worries about current environmental problems artistically into photography. The atomic accident last year still reinforced his endeavor. A major part of the pictures which will be on show in Berlin was made a year after the disaster in Fukushima itself or in other also badly hit areas like Niigata. (…)

Verena ALVES-RICHTER

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