Photographer Kijuro Yahagi, born in 1952, has won many prizes in art-and-design competitions. He undertook a long, meaningful journey through Japan, from modern and overdeveloped places, like Tokyo, to pristine, beatific, old spots. So the resulting photos convey contradictory visions: a modern image with grand-looking buildings and fast-paced lifestyles, and a traditional one with gardens, temples and natural peacefulness. They reveal Yahagi's idea of the conflict between humans and nature.

These black-and-white photos appear until September 5 in an exhibition titled Hidden Japan at the University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong. Admission is free.

On display are landscapes, metropolitan areas, traditional and modern architecture and sacred places of worship. The exhibition has toured the United States, Canada, France, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Russia, the Ukraine, Turkey, Iran and Sri Lanka.

University Museum and Art Gallery
University of Hong Kong

(August 13, 2010)


Sacred Waterfall: a photo by Kijuro Yahagi.

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