#TheLivesofDocuments

This oral history was filmed by Jonas Spriestersbach in November 2022 at Naoya Hatakeyama's studio in Tokyo, Japan. It is part of the CCA project The Lives of Documents-Photography as Project, an open reflection on how past and contemporary image-making practices serve as critical tools to read our built environment and design today’s world.
Naoya Hatakeyama (b. 1958, Rikuzentakata, Japan) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. He has pursued a forty-year long examination of landscape and the built environment, photographing different facets of its transformation from quarries to studies of architectural maquettes, which were presented at the CCA in 2007 in the exhibition Scales. (www.cca.qc.ca/...)
His work on his hometown Rikuzentakata highlights the intersections of nature, architecture, memory, and time, providing a glimpse into the impermanence of human life and the world how impermanent our world questioning the role of photography. Since 2011, the author has been involved in the Toyo Ito studio’s Home-for-all reconstruction project.
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The Lives of Documents-Photography as Project (3.05.2023 to 3.03.2023)
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