Tag: Japan
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Continuing to Rebuild After the Great Tohoku Disaster
This winter marked my fourth trip to Tohoku, Japan, to track the region’s recovery from the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. With each visit, I’ve traveled south along the coast from the Kitakami River valley to the area surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Along the way, I’ve met with small business owners,…
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Old Projects, New Phases
After years of steadily developing several long-term projects, 2018 was the year many of them dramatically changed. The Area is out in the world; my Hauts-de-France work is exhibiting; so many other projects are evolving. With those big changes in mind, here’s a recap of my work on major projects in 2018, a few highlights…
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2016 in Review: Nearly As Much There As Here
2016 was another year of travel, but unlike previous years, my explorations were more international than domestic: for more than two months I made work in Belgium, Ethiopia, France, Ireland, Japan, Northern Ireland, and the United Arab Emirates. One month of that period was for a residency in the North of France and Belgium. The…
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Rebuilding from the 2011 Tohoku, Japan Disaster
The distinctive rebuilding of the Sendai coast When Yohei Morita and I visited Tōhoku, Japan in 2014, I was most affected by the areas decimated by the tsunami — but it wasn’t for the reasons one might imagine. With the exception of the cities still in the radiation exclusion zone, most of the quarters destroyed…
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Another Year of Projects and A Little Travel
Even more than 2013, I spent 2014 working on projects, including the films Almost There and The Area, and photography series about subsidized housing in New York City and Japan’s Tōhoku region. When not working on those projects, I continued to travel through the United States, often to work on my ongoing collaboration with Michael…
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Visiting Japanese Cities
The most challenging portion of my trip to Japan was the time in Tōhoku’s recovering disaster areas, but I spent the majority of my visit in urban Japan. The first half of my trip was structured around Kobe, where I was exhibiting my Isolated Building Studies, and Tokyo served as the base for the second…