Naoya Hatakeyama. Blast no. 5707, 1998.

Nominated for three series: Blast, River and Tunnel.

ADP magazine 1(5): This is the new shit! | Published 01 November 2009

Naoya Hatakeyama Prix Pictet
> C-print, 100 x 150 cm, Japan. Courtesy Naoya Hatakeyama and Prix Pictet.

From press pack: Naoya Hatakeyama’s submission for Prix Pictet features underground waterways in Paris and Tokyo and a Japanese lime works. He examines the city, its past, present and future, in order to reflect on the relationship between people and their environment. In many of the works he shows hidden city spaces that are alien to most city-dwellers. By capturing the symmetry of angular reflections in dirty water, he makes the waterways beneath and on the edge of the city seem beautiful.

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