The camera club was founded in 1951 in Oshamambe, Hokkaido, and had been active for about 40 years. Oshamambe was the main shooting location where the club members continuously photographed workers, pioneer farmers, fishermen and other local people who support the town. They were heavily influenced by the "photo-realism movement" and photographed specific areas in an exhaustive, long-term and collective manner.
Artists
Artists
Oshamambe Shashin Dojo (Camera Club)
Interview
Video interviews with SIAF2020 participating artists are uploaded consecutively.
The summarized interviews are also available as text in PDF files along with the video interviews.
These PDF files are to be compiled into “SIAF 2020 Index”, a documentation book to share the full spectrum of SIAF2020 which will be published after February, 2021.
[About PDF file]
It is the edited text of the comments from the artist in the video interview to convey the projects within SIAF2020.
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Works (works that were to be exhibited, reference works, etc.)
Year unknown (before 1962), Honcho, Oshamambe-cho.
Shopping street in front of the train station before it was paved. It was taken with the Oshamambe Shokudo diner, which is Hiroshi Sawa’s home, in the backdrop.
Although the photographer is not identified, there is a strong possibility that Sawa took this, as he liked snowy scenes.
Year unknown (after 1956), Hirasato, Oshamambe-cho.
A large amount of Ezo spruce rootstock was buried at the settlement where Okinawan-born people came in the final year of WWII.
Six years were spent on the root extraction project. Upon its completion, a monument the rootstock was installed at the entrance of the village with the words indefatigable in sumi inked on it.
October 19, 1958, Shizukari, Oshamambe-cho.
A woman packing potatoes into a bag. Approximately 1,900 hectares of farmland in Shizukari were developed in 1951, when a designation of the marshland as a national natural monument was withdrawn. In addition to existing farmers, Karafuto (Sakhalin) repatriates and Honshu air-raid victims settled here.
March 1953, Oshamambe River, Oshamambe-cho.
Near the mouth of the Oshamambe River.
Children paddling a piece of ice that broke off due to melting snow in the early spring.