TOSHIO SHIBATA

In its interior, Japan is mountainous and green. Most of the population
still lives along its coasts, but as people slowly move inland, mountainsides are torn away to create necessary horizontal space. To secure
the newly exposed inclines, concrete is sprayed and poured onto the vertical
plains, or hoisted as pre-poured grids onto the hillsides. Since 1983, Toshio Shibata has photographed these sites. His elaborate compositions and exquisite black-and-white prints are works of art that record the merging ­
and resulting tension ­ of Japan's great natural beauty and the craftsmanship of its engineers.

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