Hashima #10 / Poster
Hashima, Japan, 2013
by Andrew Meredith
Lying off the coast of Nagasaki in Japan, Hashima Island (Gunkanjima) is a former utopian mining colony. Once the most densely populated place on earth the island was home to over 5600 people packed onto the area of 150m by 400m and built 11 stories high. In 1964 the government of Nagasaki closed the mine due to many deaths within the mine itself and the declining coal mining industry within Japan. With the mine now closed, inhabitants were forced to leave practically overnight, taking with them only the items they could carry and board the first boat to the mainland. The passageways on the island speak visually about the incredibly close proximity that inhabitants had to live to one another. Nature has now taken back the island with trees and foliage breaking through the concrete, ripping buildings apart.
Specifications:
Size 18x24″ open edition
Digital print on 189 gsm matt paper
Giclée print quality
Unframed
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Andrew Meredith is an award-winning interior, architecture and portrait photographer based in London. Shooting globally for editorial and commercial commissions for high-profile clients such as Chanel, Selfridges, Moooi, Google, Burberry, Hermes, Frame Magazine, Elle Décor, Penguin, Esquire UK and USA amongst others.
Andrew studied Photography at Falmouth College of Arts, graduating in 2002 with Honours. Soon after, he moved to London working as an assistant to other photographers, before quickly progressing to shooting independently.
Andrew's editorial and personal projects have also gained his photography high-profile recognition from industry press. He was awarded “Best in Book” in Creative Review's Photography Annual for his Slaughtermen abattoir documentary series, his third project to be featured in the annual. Shortly after, Andrew’s first major solo exhibition opened in 2010 at Riverside Studios, London, and later transferred to London's famous Truman Brewery Gallery. The exhibition featured a selection of images from Excursions, a project showcasing images captured whilst wandering in South America. Andrew’s next personal project Hashima documented the former Japanese mining island of the same name, which was exhibited at Photofusion in 2014 later transferring to the Ace Hotel, London in 2015.
Andrew’s next major project came in the form of Introversion, a landscape project exploring spatial nothingness, which was awarded a bursary to continue the project and was launched and exhibited in full at the Photofusion Gallery in Brixton, London in 2016 before taking a six-month residency at Blacks private members club in Soho, London in 2017.
Andrew is currently working on several personal projects including Neon Garden, a photo-documentary project exploring a 1000-year-old public garden in the middle of Shanghai.
