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TSUNAMI TREES
\nNaoya Hatakeyama<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Quinze ans apr\u00e8s la vague du tsunami du 11 mars 2011<\/strong> qui a touch\u00e9 les c\u00f4tes du Nord-Est du Japon<\/strong>, les r\u00e9percussions sont encore pr\u00e9gnantes, dans les paysages, les pens\u00e9es de chacun.e, la nature m\u00eame. Apr\u00e8s la publication des livres Kesengawa<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (2012) et Rikuzentakata<\/strong><\/a><\/em> (2015) consacr\u00e9s aux cons\u00e9quences plus directes, humaines et mat\u00e9rielles du tsunami, Naoya Hatakeyama<\/strong><\/a> s\u2019est int\u00e9ress\u00e9 au sort des arbres<\/strong> au fur et \u00e0 mesure de la reconstruction de la r\u00e9gion c\u00f4ti\u00e8re. Il constate la m\u00e9tamorphose des paysages<\/strong>, in\u00e9vitable du fait du r\u00e9am\u00e9nagement et du retour des activit\u00e9s humaines.<\/p>\n

Aux d\u00e9tours de ses marches du Sud vers le Nord, il rep\u00e8re un arbre encore debout, balafr\u00e9 d\u2019une grande entaille, comme coup\u00e9 en deux entre une moiti\u00e9 recouverte de feuilles et une autre, nue et sans vie. C\u2019est l\u00e0 que le projet Tsunami Trees<\/em> <\/strong>prend racine.<\/p>\n

Swept away by the wave, a large number of trees were completely destroyed and litter the land like the remains of a vanished world. Others gradually dried up, affected by the salt water, while some were cut down and used for reconstruction. Finally, there are those that remained between life and death<\/strong>, half-growing back. Naoya Hatakeyama experiences this valiant recovery in the changing light and passing seasons, a perpetual cycle whose beauty the photographer simply reveals.<\/p>\n

His text (available in english also) at the end of the book sheds light on his approach which bears witness to the structural transformations of a landscape after devastation. He connects our place as humans in a world of \u201ctransformed nature\u201d<\/strong>, which we shape with roads, dykes and buildings, disconnecting ourselves from the enduring yet ephemeral dynamics of nature. A world that can be wiped out in an instant by the relentless power of a wave. But one that also knows how to readjust after chaos and destruction, and which is gradually reborn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This work is published with the support of the Sasakawa French-Japanese Foundation<\/a> and the support of the translation and publication programme of the Japan Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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