Tatsuki Katsuhisa: Is the blood still red? 2011.11.19-20

Masaru Tatsuki's "Is the Blood Still Red? 2011.11.19–20" is a photobook published to coincide with his solo exhibition, after he received the 37th Ihei Kimura Photography Award for "Tohoku." It presents a new perspective on facing the Tohoku region after the Great East Japan Earthquake. This book consists of photographs taken during the first deer hunt in Karadani, Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture, after the earthquake, which Tatsuki accompanied for two days in November 2011. Tatsuki had been participating in hunts in the same area since 2008, continuously observing Tohoku not as a disaster-stricken area, but as an extension of daily life rooted in the land. The act of chasing animals, spilling blood, and taking lives re-emphasizes the reality of a land where life and death are intimately intertwined. A distinguishing feature is that each image is presented with strong density due to the concise number of pages and large-format binding. The question "Is the blood still red?" is also a question to confirm whether the sense of everyday life, obscured by the earthquake, still breathes in this land. This book is not a record of a disaster, but rather portrays the continuous time of life and body that spans before and after it, a book that shifts the fixed gaze of "disaster-stricken area."

[Title] その血はまだ赤いのか　2011.11.19-20 Is the blood still red ? 2011.11.19-20 - SLANT
[Publisher] SLANT
[Publication Date] 2012 / Limited to 300 copies
[Number of Pages] 16 pages
[Size] Approx. 300*300*2mm / 158g
[Format] Softcover
[Language] Japanese
[Title Reading] SONO CHI WA MADA AKAI NO KA
[Author/Editor, etc.] Masaru Tatsuki / Author, Yoshinori Ochiai (Garage) / Design, Hirohisa Asahara / Editor
[Printing] Omura Printing / Printing and Binding
[ISBN] -
[Condition] Used, no edition stated [8] Excellent to Very Good
[Accessories] -
[Featured Book] -
[Related Exhibition] March-April 2012 SLANT (Kanazawa)

Masaru Tatsuki

Born in Toyama Prefecture in 1974. Photographer.
Began working as a freelancer in 1998. In the same year, he encountered art trucks (dekotora) and spent nine years traveling across Japan photographing trucks and their drivers, publishing the photobook "DECOTORA" (Little More) in 2007.
Since 2006, he has been continuously visiting the Tohoku region, taking photographs while deeply engaging with people, culture, and nature, and published the photobook "Tohoku" (Little More) in 2011.
He received the 37th Ihei Kimura Photography Award for this work.

Since then, he has continued to create works with the themes of body, labor, and memories of the land. His major photobooks include "Is the Blood Still Red?" (SLANT), "KURAGARI" and "Owari." (both SUPER BOOKS), and "Gyojin" (T&M Projects).

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