© Hiroshi Watanabe
Hiroshi Watanabe's new photobook, 'The Day the Dam Collapses', will be presented as part of the Daylight emergi-cube at PhotoVille this year.
Hiroshi won 3rd place in the Professional Still Life category of the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards. In 2000 he closed his own production company in order to become a full time photographer. His work has been published around the world, and has been exhibited in galleries across the United States and Japan.
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Here we present a short preview of Hiroshi's accompaning essay from 'The Day the Dam Collapses' and some images from within the book:
"In my earlier life, I sometimes felt uneasiness about the fact that I would die some day. I remember it was not so much the fear of dying but rather a kind of sadness about the fact that the world will continue to exist forever after my death. Perhaps my family and close friends will remember me and even mourn my death for some time. Nonetheless, people will be walking the streets as before and the world will go on. And it will be like that forever."
