Floodgates
10 Jul 2008
Photographer Sato Jun Ichi explores the architecture of Japan’s flood control infrastructure in a huge collection of photographs taken over a period of 10+ years.
Ibaraki, 1997
Tochigi, 2006 // Saitama, 2007
Saitama, 1999
Chiba, 1997
Saitama, 1999
Saitama, 2006
Saitama, 2006 // Saitama, 2007
Ibaraki, 1998
Saitama, 1998
Miyagi, 1998
Visit Sato’s Floodgates site for about 600 more photos. (Use the links at the top left to scroll through the 37 galleries.) There is also a book.
That’s awesome (in a way ^^), I never thought japanese will make a collection of photographs with such a theme.
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Those are amazing. It’s a shame the US didn’t have a floodgate system like this during Katrina.
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