Background information
On March 11, 2011 at 2:46 p.m. local time, the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan was hit by the heaviest earthquake ever recorded in the country. Its consequences, a tsunami that razed cities and villages along a 400 km long coastline, as well as the reactor accident in Fukushima, added up to a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. One year after the tsunami on march, 11 2011, the photographer Hans-Christian SCHINK spent several weeks traveling through the region on a grant from the Villa Kamogawa Kyoto.
Content
In his series, published here in the photo volume 'Tohoku', Hans-Christian SCHINK combines familiar still photographs of landscapes—in which the destructive power of the wave is only subtly apparent—with several, yet all the more impressive, photographs that bring home the full force of the natural disaster: houses piled on top of each other like toys, industrial buildings reduced to steel skeletons, boats perched on dry land, and the concrete walls of quays with deep cracks that testify to the full force of the water and debris." (publisher's note, © Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2013)
About the German photographer, Hans-Christian SCHINK (b.1961, in Erfurt)
Photo books by Hans-Christian SCHINK
- Book design
- Ingo SCHEFFLER
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31 x 26,5 x 2 cm., 132 pp., 61 color ills., trilingual: German / English / Japanese