Maki Hayashida

Beyond the Mountains | 山を越えて

(2020 - 2024)

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Aomori-Iwate Prefectural Illegal Dumping Site

The Illegal Dumping Site on Teshima Island

Noshiro Industrial Waste Treatment Center

The Illegal Dumping Site at Gotanda, Kuwana City

The llegal Dumping Site at the Northern Gifu City Area, Gifu Prefecture

STATEMENT

“Beyond the Mountains” is a visual archive of illegal dumping in Japan. Focusing on large-scale cases that are subject to specific hindrance removal projects under the Industrial Waste Special Measures Law, which expired on March 31, 2023, this body of work revisits illegal dumping across the nation, mainly in mountainous areas during the 1990s and 2000s, along with related important matters.

『Beyond the Mountains』は、日本における不法投棄のビジュアル・アーカイブである。2023年3月31日に失効した産業廃棄物特別措置法に基づく特定支障除去事業の対象である大規模事案に焦点を当て、1990年代から2000年代にかけて山間部を中心に起こった全国の不法投棄について、関連する重要事項とともに再検証している。

WORKS

Archival Image, Aomori-Iwate Prefectural Illegal Dumping Site (Aomori Side), 2018

BOOK DUMMY

As of January, 2023

The photobook as an object represents the quantity, multi-layers, complexity and concealment of illegal dumping in Japan.

オブジェとしてのフォトブックは、日本における不法投棄の量、多層性、複雑性、隠蔽性を表している。

Aerial photographs ©️ Geospatial Information Authority of Japan | 国土地理院

- Shortlisted in the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2023.
- Shortlisted in Fiebre Photobook Dummy Award 2022.
- Winner of Dummy Book Award in Singapore International Photography Festival 2020.

INSTALLATION VIEWS

*KG+SELECT,* 2021, at Shijyo Ryogaemachi Building, Kyoto.