Takashi Arai   MONUMENTS

the prize winning work for the 41th Kimura Ihei Award

Being exposed in a hundred suns – Takashi Arai’s first monograph MONUMENTS

Beginning in 2010, when he first became interested in nuclear issues, Arai has used the daguerreotype technique to create individual records—micro-monuments—of his encounters with surviving crew members, and the salvaged hull, of the fallout-contaminated Daigo Fukuryumaru fishing boat, records that touch upon the fragmented reality of events in the past. This project led him to photograph the deeply interconnected subjects of Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.

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Author: Takashi Arai

Publisher: Photo Gallery International
First Edition: September 1, 2015

Book Design: Masakazu Onishi

Printing and Binding: Live Art Books Inc.

ISBN 978-4-9908286-1-5
Size: (L)275 x (W)195 x (H)25 mm