Born in 1986 in Sendai, Japan. While working at a photo studio, I assisted various photographers. In 2016, I moved to Berlin seeking new creative challenges and became captivated by black-and-white analog prints and darkroom techniques. My work focuses on exploring artistic expression through traditional photographic methods, always striving to pursue unique forms of expression.
11032011
2020
8x watercolor paper, bromoil process, framed, 39 x 49 cm
On March 11, 2011 at 14:46 local time, a catastrophe occurred in eastern Japan. One of the world's strongest recorded earthquakes devastated the Tohoku region of Japan. Many towns in the region were destroyed.
Aware of the impact of natural disasters on people, Atsushi Kakefuda says: "Two months after the disaster, I was overwhelmed by a strange feeling as I faced a landscape that was shrouded in darkness and silence despite the clear sky. There was an “emptiness” there that was beyond emotion and could not be described in words."
The force of nature destroyed almost everything that man had created. Where once there were inhabited houses, there is now only chaos, rubble and destruction. Kakefuda shows this impressively by using the positive copying process of the bromine oil technique, which in this visual and technical combination expresses the nothingness of the landscape, human fragility and what is left behind in the silence and emptiness of the catastrophe.
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