Toshiya Murakoshi, "When Silence Learned to Breathe", 2019-2020 / 2025 - Courtesy of the artist and TAKA ISHII GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHY / FILM.
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When Silence Learned to Breathe
19/12/2025 - 31/01/2026
TAKA ISHII GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHY / FILM
5-17-1 2F Roppongi Minato-ku
#106-0032 Tokyo
www.takaishiigallery.com/
The show features the latest photographs from a series he has continued to shoot in his home prefecture of Fukushima since 2011. Following Player & Bark, Burn After Seeing, An Eventual Saturation, The Wind Prays for Sublime Stillness, this fifth series comprises 15 photographs taken between January 2019 and December 2020.
The nuclear accident triggered by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 released radioactive materials, confronting us with the presence in our environment of substances imperceptible to our senses. It also caused broader reflection on how much we overlook or fail to perceive in the course of daily life.
For Murakoshi, the act of seeing itself is a crucial element of his photographic practice. When he looked at the familiar landscape of his home prefecture of Fukushima, he asked himself what had changed after the disaster and what had remained the same. He explains that to approach this honestly, he had to simply focus on the landscape before him without letting outside information or media narratives shape his expectations, and to listen carefully to what those places conveyed. For a photographer born and raised in Fukushima who had been working there long before the disaster, the sight of evacuation zones and restricted areas marked the beginning of a painful awareness that compelled him to reconsider, at the most basic level, what it meant to continue taking photographs in this place.
19/12/2025 - 31/01/2026
TAKA ISHII GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHY / FILM
5-17-1 2F Roppongi Minato-ku
#106-0032 Tokyo
www.takaishiigallery.com/
The show features the latest photographs from a series he has continued to shoot in his home prefecture of Fukushima since 2011. Following Player & Bark, Burn After Seeing, An Eventual Saturation, The Wind Prays for Sublime Stillness, this fifth series comprises 15 photographs taken between January 2019 and December 2020.
The nuclear accident triggered by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 released radioactive materials, confronting us with the presence in our environment of substances imperceptible to our senses. It also caused broader reflection on how much we overlook or fail to perceive in the course of daily life.
For Murakoshi, the act of seeing itself is a crucial element of his photographic practice. When he looked at the familiar landscape of his home prefecture of Fukushima, he asked himself what had changed after the disaster and what had remained the same. He explains that to approach this honestly, he had to simply focus on the landscape before him without letting outside information or media narratives shape his expectations, and to listen carefully to what those places conveyed. For a photographer born and raised in Fukushima who had been working there long before the disaster, the sight of evacuation zones and restricted areas marked the beginning of a painful awareness that compelled him to reconsider, at the most basic level, what it meant to continue taking photographs in this place.