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“I believe that in a photographic space there is no time,” the Japanese photographer Lieko Shiga has said of her art. But it is hard not to think of this picture—taken in 2010, one year before the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami—as timely.
Shiga relocated to the rural village of Kitakama in 2008 to capture its verdant natural beauty, rustic atmosphere, and unique spirit. Immersing herself in her surroundings, she adopted the role of village photographer; chronicling the local traditions and infusing her experiences into expressive and sometimes surreal works.
When disaster struck, the village was decimated.
Bibliography of standard reference books for Japanese studies with descriptive notes.But Shiga continued in her practice, her works serving to document the experience of the disaster.
With hindsight, it’s hard not to imagine that there is something prophetic about the works that Shiga produced between 2008 and 2010.
This is particularly true of the titular image of her “Spiral Shore” (Rasen Kaigan) series. Nobody could have foreseen that a tidal wave wou