The photographer Naoya Hatakeyama takes pictures of quarries and cities, and of the forgotten, forbidding places that bind them: factories, roads, rivers, tunnels. See his depictions of a landscape contused and pockmarked by industry:
Sometime in the nineteen-eighties, riding the monorail into Tokyo, Naoya Hatakeyama had an epiphany about limestone—namely, that it was everywhere, except in the vast holes where it used to be. Blast after blast, truckload by truckload, humanity had embarked on an elaborate limestone-relocation project, otherwise known as “construction.” What once belonged to the landscape had been prized out and spun into cities.
Photographing quarry explosions, for instance, Hatakeyama captures the instants when hundreds of millions of years of hard-won solidity are undone by the push of a button. The limestone shatters into a storm of debris, raining sediment. Zephyrs of smoke surge between shards of rock. For Hatakeyama, this is like the moment of conception. It’s where buildings come from. In limestone, he sees the mineral past and the urban future; the blasts are as generative as they are destructive.
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