Background information
"The bonsais in the color photographs by German photographer Norbert SCHOERNER are from the Abe family, who lives near Fukushima. These masters - Kurakichi, his son Kenichi and his grandson Daiki - have been growing bonsai from seed for three generations exclusively for seeds of tree species found in the shadow of the volcanic mountain Azuma-Kofuji.For his photographs, the German photographer climbed the mountain and took a series of landscape pictures.He had prints made of them on such a large scale that if the family's bonsai But were placed in front of it and photographed in the right light, the miniature pines looked like mature trees. Constructed diorama-like environments are created. The impact of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant nuclear disaster on the ecology of the region makes it impossible to view these works independently of that disaster The viewer(s): in the images is directly associated with the decomposed foolish consequences of this event and mankind's attempts to use and dominate nature for its own purposes.
Content
The color photographs by Norbert SCHOERNER are mostly reproduced on double pages and are framed by texts by Tom Morton, Shinichi Nakazawa, Julia Psilitelis, Matthias Wagner K, these are written exclusively in German." (somewhat adapted text, © Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz king, 2022)