News The 10 -year trajectory that photographers follow the horses that live in the beautiful phantom island "Yururi" in Hokkaido

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Atsushi Okada, who continued to shoot Yururi Island, was a photographer from Hokkaido who won the Kimura Ihei Photo Award in 2008.He will exhibit Yururi's work at the Hokkaido Art File 2022, which will be held at Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido from January 12 to March 13, 2022.

About 2 offshore in the Nemuro Peninsula, the eastern end of Hokkaido.Yururi Island, a small island floating in a 6km location.This island, which is a northern seabird breeding ground and a utopian of horses, has become a natural monument in Hokkaido, and the island is a completely uninhabited island.[Other photos] After negotiating with Yururi Shimamuro City, we have stored photos and video works by Atsushi Okada, a photographer who continued to take photos on this island with permission from 2011, as well as materials related to Jururi Island.The Yururi website opened on December 1st.In 1945, before the end of the war, the Soviet Union unilaterally destroyed the Nippon Soviet Neutral Treaty, and ruled the Chikan Islands, Kokugi Island, Kokumai Island, and Gandan Island.Fishermen, who were forced to migrate, began to cross to Yururi Island in search of kelp dried places.The fishermen took the horses to the island as the effort to raise the landed kelp to the dried place.A gentle time for a small number of kelp fishermen lived on the island.However, when a ship with an engine appeared, and the effort changed from a horse to a car, the islanders gradually began to leave the island, and in 1971 the last islanders left to the uninhabited island.Only the horses were left, which became their utopia.Horses eat Ainumiyakozasa, which grows on the island, and the sun blooms when the sun hits near the ground, and the whole side is like a flower garden.In 1976, it was designated as a Hokkaido Natural Environment Conservation Area, except that it was possible to see an island like a disk floating on the sea surface from the kelp port in Nemuro, but the former islanders were aiming for horse management.It has become a phantom island where horses who cannot land lived.In 2006, the aging of the former islanders became difficult to manage horses, and the island was raised from the island.In other words, the life of a new horse is no longer born on the island in the future.The horses in Yururi are destined to reduce the number of one, one, one, and one, and one.Atsushi Okada's work, which has been shooting for 10 years, captures the rich, beautiful nature, horses, and its eyes.In the four seasons of the island, musician Haruka Nakamura makes a sound and draws the viewer into the island landscape.While watching the history and text of the island, I want you to think about the presence of beautiful and ephemeral islands.

Sentence: Ryohei Nakajima