田川基成『見果てぬ海』
 Book Design：須山悠里 発行：赤々舎 Size： 237mm × 270mm Page：180 pages ＋ 撮影ノート 12 pages Binding：Hardcover Published in Nov 2020 ISBN：978-4-86541-125-6 |
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About Book
海の向こう側から、はじめて自分が育った島を見た。 故郷・長崎の海を巡る旅 写真家・田川基成が自身の故郷である長崎の海を旅して撮影した写真集。
Across the Sea
Motonari Tagawa
I left the island where I spent the first half of my life to live elsewhere. And then--I think it was just after I turned thirty--I decided one day that I wanted to know more about that ocean from my childhood.
The island where I grew up, Matsushima, is just off the coast of the Nishisonogi Peninsula in Nagasaki Prefecture. The region has gnarled ria coastlines, and more islands than anywhere else in Japan. Just over 70 of the islands are inhabited, but if you include the uninhabited ones there are some 600 islands dotting that sea. Sitting on a park bench on the west coast of Matsushima, you can look across at the Goto Islands in the distance. I've been staring at that sea since I was little.
Those islands are relatively close to the Chinese mainland, and since ancient times various peoples, cultures, and religions have arrived from across the sea. Buddhism came from China, but there are also Shinto shrines dotted here and there. During the Age of Discovery, the Portuguese and Spanish brought Christianity. And then came the Hidden Christians, who weathered oppression generation after generation. Even now those same faiths are still blended here, still co-exist around this ocean. The people, regardless of their beliefs, all practiced fishing or whaling in this same sea and cultivated those same steep terrain. Our lives here now rest on the backs of their toils. One day, after I became an adult, I decided for the first time to venture across that ocean spread out in front of me.
One windy winter morning, I set out on the ferry, and after changing boats several times, eventually reached an uninhabited island, one of the Goto islands. From the harbor, I walked around the coast and up a hill, and gazed out to the east. Sure enough, there beyond a sea slightly darkened by winter clouds was the island where I grew up. I was looking back from the other side of the sea I had always seen. It was a very odd sensation, like a parallel universe.
関連写真展第20回（2018年度）三木淳賞受賞新作写真展 田川 基成 写真展「見果てぬ海」」 会期：2020年11月17日(金)〜11月30日(月) 時間：10:30～18:30(日休／最終日15時まで) 会場：ニコンプラザ東京 THE GALLERY（新宿） 入場無料 巡回展 会期：2021年1月21日(木)〜1月27日(水) 時間：10:30～18:30(日休／最終日15時まで) 会場：ニコンプラザ大阪 THE GALLERY（梅田） 入場無料 【Other Exhibiton 】 田川基成写真展「Vernacular Churches」 会期：2020年10月29日（木）〜11月10日（火） 時間：12:00〜20:00（最終日〜17：00まで）水曜休廊 会場：Alt_Medium（東京 高田馬場） |
 
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Artist Information
田川 基成 （たがわ・もとなり）
1985年生まれ、長崎県の離島出身。北海道大学農学部森林科学科卒業。 東京で編集者、記者を経て2014年に独立。自身のルーツと暮らしてきた土地や旅の経験を通し、移民と文化、風景と記憶などをテーマに作品を制作する。千葉県に住むイスラム教徒のバングラデシュ移民家族の5年間を写した「ジャシム一家」 で第20回（2018 年）三木淳賞受賞。
日本の移民文化・移民事情を伝えるウェブマガジン『ニッポン複雑紀行』にて連載中。
写真集
2020年 『見果てぬ海』 赤々舎
個展
2018年 「ジャシム一家」 新宿/大阪 ニコンプラザ THE GALLERY
2018年 「ジャシム一家」 札幌市教育文化会館
2017年 「ジャシム一家」 銀座/大阪ニコンサロン
グループ展
2016年 「Photobook as Object」展 Reminders Photography Stronghold (墨田区、東京)
2016年 「Between The Rivers」 東川国際写真フェスティバル
Motonari Tagawa
Born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1985.
After studying Forest Science at Hokkaido University, Tagawa worked as an editor and a reporter for four years in Tokyo before becoming an independent photographer in 2014.
His work focuses on his interest in immigrants and culture, and on landscapes and memories. He won the Miki Jun Award in 2018 for his debut work Jashim Family, a photo documentary covering five years in the life of a Muslim family of Bangladeshi immigrants living in Chiba prefecture, Japan.
