SEISMOPHOTOGRAPHY: IMAGES OF NATURAL DISASTER (2011-2013)
In SEISMOPHOTOGRAPHY: IMAGES OF NATURAL DISASTER, photographer James Nakagawa and geophysicist Michael Wile Hamburger examine the feelings of awe, amazement, fear and beauty in relation to the tsunami that hit the Japanese coast in 2011, a natural disaster that changed face of the earth. Nakagawa and Hamburger collaborated to create a new medium that brings together photography and seismology, two forms of visual representation of the world around us. With their seismophotography they edit the photographs that Nakagawa made after the disaster with the methods used by seismologists to record earthquakes – from the rolling movement of a pen that shoots out to digital recordings made by seismographs near the locations depicted in the photographs.
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