Download PDF - John Rule Art Book Distribution

Available: January 2013
ISBN: 9782757206171
Price: £33.50
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Illustrations: 120 col photos
Size: 270 x 250 mm
Language: English/French
Category: Photography
Rights: UK & Eire, Middle East
& Far East only
SOMOGY
Low Tide: Japan in Chaos
Denis Rouvre
"On March 11, 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 9 occurred
off the coast of Honshu Island in Japan. The ensuing
tsunami devastated nearly 600 kilometers of coastline,
causing 21,000 casualties and missing, completely
or partially destroying many cities and port areas. In
November 2011 and February 2012, I decided to go over
there. I had no idea what I'd do. My trip was driven by the
need to confront myself with a reality that eluded me ... I
traveled 300 kilometers of coastline, those most affected
by the tsunami. An extreme desolation reigned. Nothing
was spared. I photographed these landscapes without
thinking, convinced that I needed time to understand
the cataclysm. I then tried to meet the people who lived
in these places before the event. The people who live
there, mostly elderly, are shipwrecked. They have lost
everything. The traces of their past lives were swept away
in seconds. I recorded these faces to wonder about the
place of man in chaos. In their faces is mixed distress and
resignation, pain, but also a will to live."
-Denis Rouvre
JOHN RULE Spring 2013
Photography
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