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An Anticipation #2 (signed)

by Kazumasa Harada

Photographs: Kazumasa Harada

Publisher: applause

36 pages

Year: October 2024

Price: 37 €

The two volumes titled “An Anticipation” form a series that contemplates both the primal and the artificial landscapes associated with trees, presented as a pair of contrasting booklets. With an effort to minimize subjective interpretation, the lens is directed toward landscapes that contain inherent contradictions.

The red booklet(#2) focuses on a small primeval beech forest on the outskirts of Berlin, designated as a protected area. It depicts the distinctive atmosphere and paradoxes found in this fragment of old-growth forest, which is gradually encroached upon by surrounding pastures and planted forests. Wild beavers—protected by human intervention and now increasingly active—are also transforming the forest from within.

In contrast, the green booklet(#3) centers on trees that have grown freely and untended, left to flourish in abandoned spaces against the backdrop of Berlin’s artificial urban scenery. It portrays these sights as part of the city’s chaotic and desolate social landscape. What, then, can “primeval” or “original” truly mean in a place where almost no untouched forest remains following the Industrial Revolution? Is it even possible for a place to exist without traces of human presence? One might say that the photographs in the red and green booklets ultimately depict the same landscape, each in its own way.

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An Anticipation #2 (signed)

by Kazumasa Harada

Photographs: Kazumasa Harada

Publisher: applause

36 pages

Year: October 2024

Price: 37 €

The two volumes titled “An Anticipation” form a series that contemplates both the primal and the artificial landscapes associated with trees, presented as a pair of contrasting booklets. With an effort to minimize subjective interpretation, the lens is directed toward landscapes that contain inherent contradictions.

The red booklet(#2) focuses on a small primeval beech forest on the outskirts of Berlin, designated as a protected area. It depicts the distinctive atmosphere and paradoxes found in this fragment of old-growth forest, which is gradually encroached upon by surrounding pastures and planted forests. Wild beavers—protected by human intervention and now increasingly active—are also transforming the forest from within.

In contrast, the green booklet(#3) centers on trees that have grown freely and untended, left to flourish in abandoned spaces against the backdrop of Berlin’s artificial urban scenery. It portrays these sights as part of the city’s chaotic and desolate social landscape. What, then, can “primeval” or “original” truly mean in a place where almost no untouched forest remains following the Industrial Revolution? Is it even possible for a place to exist without traces of human presence? One might say that the photographs in the red and green booklets ultimately depict the same landscape, each in its own way.

More books by Kazumasa Harada