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Articles by Alejandro Chaskielberg
One of the images in Alejandro Chaskielberg’s book Otsuchi Future Memories shows the village as seen from a hill nearby. From that same perspective in March 2011, people who had managed to get to safety watched the town being swept away in a matter of minutes by waves that reached 10 km inland. Otsuchi was probably the hardest hit location during the tsunami.
Otsuchi Future Memories
Otsuchi Future Memories A haunting reflection on the dynamic relationship between family photographs and community memory in the aftermath of tragedies. In this case: Japan’s still painful earthquake and tsunami disaster. Following the most powerful earthquake ever to hit Japan, the sheer scale of the tsunami that smashed into northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011—together with the nuclear disaster that came along with it—was unprecedented.
Geometry and Color: On the Streets of Wroclaw and Kuala Lumpur - Photographs and text by Jolanta Mazur | LensCulture
The photographs in this series were taken over the course of a year in the cities of Wroclaw, Poland and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The two locations, which are miles apart both geographically and culturally, have been united in the series by a common theme: “Color and Geometry.” This vision creates a parallel world where the ordinary and mundane are transformed into the extraordinary and ambiguous.
La Creciente: Island Life in Argentina’s Paraná Delta - Photographs and text by Alejandro Chaskielberg | LensCulture
I lived in the islands of the Paraná River Delta in Argentina for three years. Far away from the city, I photographed the community living there and connected with the river, nature and the local people. Influenced by books and stories about the great Paraná, I began to observe how people live and work in a natural environment where the primary element is water. Every day I crossed the Paraná in a motorboat, meeting island residents here and there—on the wharf, in a store, at the gas station.
Beautiful Portraits of Tsunami Survivors Help a Community Rebuild
Once the water’s receded, the rebuilding’s begun and the news crews have departed, how do you photograph a massive natural disaster? Alejandro Chaskielberg grappled with these questions for his series Otsuchi Future Memories, which is about the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. He ultimately settled on making stunning portraits of families within the footprints of homes and workplaces leveled by the sea.
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