Takashi Homma: mushrooms from the forest 2011

Books

  • Client
  • limArt co.,ltd
  • Photographer
  • Takashi Homma
  • Specification
  • 264 × 176 mm, hardcover, 257 × 172 mm, softcover, 288 pages
  • Design
  • Yoshihisa Tanaka
  • Printing
  • Hakko Art Co., Ltd.
  • Period
  • Dec 2011
  • Photography for the website
  • Hiroshi Manaka

Takashi Homma went into the forest in Fukushima just after the Great East Japan Earthquake. This is a photo book featuring a series of photographs of the forest and indigenous mushrooms. 

Nutritious mushrooms were a blessing of the forest for the animals living there. In the face of the mushrooms contaminated by radiation, what he could do was only collecting photographs of them. 

For Homma, who felt helplessness in the face of the immense devastation and believed he could only document through photography, placing a title on the cover was a source of internal conflict. This tension is symbolized by the strikethroughs consistently applied to the title and author’s name. The strikethroughs also critique radiation contamination and nuclear energy.