戦争のかたち／Bunkers

2001- 2005

　ある日、東京郊外の団地の片隅で戦争の遺物と遭遇する。弾痕の無数に残る廃墟だった。薄っぺらく感じていた日常の中に突如「戦争」を発見した僕は、それ以来暇を見つけては、カメラを手に遺構を探すようになった。
　初めて触れる戦争時代の建造物の超機能的な形は（不謹慎なのかもしれないが）美しく感じられた。敗戦以来、忘れられ/忘れようとされてきた戦争の建造物たちは、忘却のなかで60年という人間の営みの中に埋没し、「住居」「子供の秘密基地」などそれぞれ新たな機能を与えられ生きていた。
日本全国に残る旧軍事施設跡を４年かけて取材したシリーズ。




The subjects of SHITAMICHI Motoyuki's photographs are unusual landscapes that he discovers during his travels, and he is chiefly concerned with the memories of the past that they contain.
He photographs abandoned military structures and equipment, such as pillboxes and batteries, that have been left to deteriorate during the 60 years since World War Ⅱ. Although these images may cause people to think about the negative aspects of the war, the artist does not intend to make a histrical point. He is primarily interested in the strangeness and abruptness of the presence of wartime ruins in an ordinary landscape. He is also attracted to the strange formal qualities of these objects. By basing his work on this subject, he traces apart of the history of this country which is being forgotten.