Atsushi Fukushima
(Japan)
Born in Kanawagawa, Japan in 1981. Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Department of Photography in 2004 and completed the Graduate Course at Tokyo College of Photography in 2006.
From 2004 to 2014: He worked as a delivery person at a bento box shop for the elderly while taking the photos of the elders.
He traveled from Hokkaido to Okinawa twice on foot in 2009 and 2010.
From 2018 to 2021, he became a farmer and documented the intensity of the summer farming.
Awards
Grand Prix at KYOTOGRAPHIE Satellite Category KG+, 2019
Exhibitions
2004 “SCOPE” Shinjuku Nikon Salon
2008 “Taking Food” Shinjuku Nikon Salon
2013 “A Taste of Bento” KOBE819 Gallery
2018 “Journey to Plant a Tree” KOBE819 Gallery
2020 “Bento is Ready” KYOTOGRAPHIE2020 Tasuku Ito Machiya, Kyoto
2021 “I Deliver Bento Boxes to the House of Old People Living Alone” IG Photo Gallery
Publication
2021 “I Deliver Bento Boxes to the House of Old People Living Alone”
ZIPANGU -Exploring for Native Humanity
This project is a five-month journey on foot across Japan from Okinawa to Hokkaido, photographing the way of life of the people I meet.
It is never easy to survive no matter what era or place one lives in.
Covid, natural disasters, economic downturns, wars, and other dark news have enveloped the Japanese archipelago for years now, and we live in a suffocating situation where we cannot imagine the future and try our best to suppress our feelings of anxiety.
However, we still work, study, brush our teeth, eat, and breathe.
I would like to reiterate to all of Japan that this in itself is actually a very powerful thing.
I believe that the gold in today’s chaotic world is “the power of the human instinct to survive.
I will move forward step by step while carrying a heay backpack and sleeping beneath the open sky for many nights.
This activity is the exact opposite of today’s world, which is increasingly subeded and efficient, but that is why I can see the world, and that is why I will document the powerful and beautiful radiance of the people I meet, with photographs and send them throughout Japan.
BTS Footage
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