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      Almost Transparent Island

      Maki Hayashida

      The story is about Teshima, a rural island on the Seto Inland Sea of Japan that had a huge volume of industrial waste illegally dumped there between 1970-80s. The work combines archival and contemporary photographs creating a collage of what was and what is now to make a visual testament to the scandal.

The story is about Teshima, a rural island located in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan.

A huge volume of industrial waste (mainly automotive shredder residues) had been illegally dumped between 1975 and 1980s in Teshima. The beautiful beach was filled with garbage from unauthorized dumping, which was buried in the sand or piled up in heaps and burnt, causing black smoke to rise here and there. After a long legal battle, the issue was finally settled and the cleaning of the island started in 2000, and since then about 918,000 tons of industrial waste had been transferred to nearby Naoshima Island for intermediate processing. The transport was completed in March 2017, followed by the completion of intermediate processing in June 2017. All what happend is called Teshima Scandal.

Based on this background, my project consists of two elements. One is photographs of the incident spots I have taken after July 2017. The other is archival photographs the island residents have taken in 1980-2000s. The archival photographs are transparent into the current landscape.

I am a generation who does not know the scandal directly. Teshima is now well known for “Island of Arts” as long as Naoshima. More and more tourists are coming from all over the world and Japan to enjoy a number of the art sites, food, and nature in the island. The Teshima incident is fading with time. Therefore, I am trying to indicate what has happened along with the economic growth, in this beautiful island of Japan.

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Maki Hayashida

Maki Hayashida

Japan

Born in 1984, Maki Hayashida is a contemporary photographer based in East Tokyo, interested in social issues around nature and human community. Her self-made photobooks, JAPAN-GO-ROUND (2014), The Pacific Tourist (2016) and Almost Transparent Island (2019), have been awarded and exhibited worldwide. makihayashida.com
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