Floodgates
10 Jul 2008
Photographer Sato Jun Ichi explores the architecture of Japan’s flood control infrastructure in a huge collection of photographs taken over a period of 10+ years.
Ibaraki, 1997
Tochigi, 2006 // Saitama, 2007
Saitama, 1999
Chiba, 1997
Saitama, 1999
Saitama, 2006
Saitama, 2006 // Saitama, 2007
Ibaraki, 1998
Saitama, 1998
Miyagi, 1998
Visit Sato’s Floodgates site for about 600 more photos. (Use the links at the top left to scroll through the 37 galleries.) There is also a book.
That’s awesome (in a way ^^), I never thought japanese will make a collection of photographs with such a theme.
[…] Pink Tentacle has an odd, but wonderful collection of photos by photographer Sato Jun Ichi of…..the architecture of Japan’s flood control infrastructure. Never would have thought such a thing could be so interesting. The above photo is from Saitama. This one was taken in Miyagi. Apparently Sato has been at this for 10 years. He has a massive collection of some 600 photos here. He’s also got a nice coffee table book you can buy at Amazon. […]
[…] The crew at Pink Tentacle have blogged fourth another must see. Sato Jun Ichi has been photographing Japan’s flood control infrastructure since the mid-90’s. His website has an astounding collection of hundreds of images from this series (arranged in sequential sets), and he has also published a book of images from this series. […]
Those are amazing. It’s a shame the US didn’t have a floodgate system like this during Katrina.
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