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"The photo book 'Restricted Residence' examines the relocation of Japanese citizens to Namie and Iitate, two towns exposed to extreme radioactivity following the catastrophic leak at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Despite the inconclusive scientific consensus of the long-term effects of radiation in the area, in 2017 the Japanese government began to reduce the exclusion zones and heavily financially incentivise residents to return to what were formerly bustling towns, with nearly 20,000 living and working there.
Now, the area is eerily empty, with just a few hundred people brave enough to return. With the reactor still unrepaired and uninhabitable radiation hotspots scattered across the landscape, some believe these areas will not be safe for 50 years or longer.
Giles PRICE’s images show ordinary, hard-working people hoping for a better future: clean-up and reconstruction workers, medical officers, office workers, a taxi driver who is paid a retainer to stay because there are so few customers, a mechanic, a farmer with contaminated cattle, which he can’t sell, but refuses to put down.
'Restricted Residence' employs thermal technology often used in medicine and surveying, to render the everyday landscapes of Namie and Iitate surreal and inverted.
With an accompanying essay by environmental writer Fred Pearce, photo book 'Restricted Residence' attempts to illustrate the hidden stresses on those affected by the nuclear disaster, while raising questions about the broader impact of manmade catastrophes upon our fragile environment." (publisher's note, © Loose Joints, 2020)
About the photographer, Giles PRICE:
London-based photographer Giles PRICE’s work examines environments affected by human presence. These include major structural interventions, landscapes transformed by mass gathering, human endeavour, even protest, as well as mankind’s impact on an environmental, economic and political scale.
Through landscape images and portraiture, he often shoots in series, exploring how both mediums relate to each other. He is also interested in how new forms of technology can be used for effective visual storytelling.
Giles PRICE has BA Hons in Photographic Studies from the University of Derby, UK and has had his work exhibited at The Photographers Gallery, London, UK; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Imperial War Museum, London, UK; Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia;
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.
Giles PRICE won 2nd prize in the 2013 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, London. His photographs are held in the permanent collections at National Portrait Gallery and Imperial War Museum in London.
Price is a contributer to various publications including The New York Times Magazine, FT Weekend Magazine, Guardian Weekend Magazine, Telegraph Magazine and Bloomberg Markets among others.
Despite the inconclusive scientific consensus of the long-term effects of radiation in the area, in 2017 the Japanese government began to reduce the exclusion zones and heavily financially incentivise residents to return to what were formerly bustling towns, with nearly 20,000 living and working there.
Now, the area is eerily empty, with just a few hundred people brave enough to return. With the reactor still unrepaired and uninhabitable radiation hotspots scattered across the landscape, some believe these areas will not be safe for 50 years or longer.
Giles PRICE’s images show ordinary, hard-working people hoping for a better future: clean-up and reconstruction workers, medical officers, office workers, a taxi driver who is paid a retainer to stay because there are so few customers, a mechanic, a farmer with contaminated cattle, which he can’t sell, but refuses to put down.
'Restricted Residence' employs thermal technology often used in medicine and surveying, to render the everyday landscapes of Namie and Iitate surreal and inverted.
With an accompanying essay by environmental writer Fred Pearce, photo book 'Restricted Residence' attempts to illustrate the hidden stresses on those affected by the nuclear disaster, while raising questions about the broader impact of manmade catastrophes upon our fragile environment." (publisher's note, © Loose Joints, 2020)
About the photographer, Giles PRICE:
London-based photographer Giles PRICE’s work examines environments affected by human presence. These include major structural interventions, landscapes transformed by mass gathering, human endeavour, even protest, as well as mankind’s impact on an environmental, economic and political scale.
Through landscape images and portraiture, he often shoots in series, exploring how both mediums relate to each other. He is also interested in how new forms of technology can be used for effective visual storytelling.
Giles PRICE has BA Hons in Photographic Studies from the University of Derby, UK and has had his work exhibited at The Photographers Gallery, London, UK; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Imperial War Museum, London, UK; Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia;
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.
Giles PRICE won 2nd prize in the 2013 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, London. His photographs are held in the permanent collections at National Portrait Gallery and Imperial War Museum in London.
Price is a contributer to various publications including The New York Times Magazine, FT Weekend Magazine, Guardian Weekend Magazine, Telegraph Magazine and Bloomberg Markets among others.
- Photographer(s)
- Giles PRICE, UK
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Fred Pearce (text)
- Format
- Sewn booklet with embossed buckram cover, 19,5 x 30 cm., 80 pp., 42 color ills. printed with a custom experimental 5-colour profile
- Language(s)
- bilingual texts: Japanese / English
- Year of Release
- 2019
- Publisher
- Loose Joints, UK
- Print run details
- 1st print run