Masaki Iwabuchi is a New York City-based Japanese designer and artist. Masaki speculates possibilities and envisions novel ways of perceiving the world through photography. His aim is not to predict the future but to explore radical ways in which the future could unfold and alter current human behaviors to reach preferable futures. Therefore, he experiments with and unpacks the politics, history, meanings, assumptions, and human nature behind the aesthetic representation of alternative worlds.
His work inspires audiences to understand the world differently and to envision positive futures. Masaki asks, “While science fiction and movies often depict dystopian futures, everyone wants a better future in real life. However, what does the preferred future in the 22nd century look like? How can we envision and visualize it?”
Starting from such a question, he started capturing poetic fragments of “futures.”
“Photography 100 Years After” is his art photography series depicting the lifestyle of Japanese people in the 22nd century. His photographs pose questions about what the world will be like in the future and make us think about what will or will not change from the present.
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Photography 100 Years After by Masaki Iwabuchi, exhibited at Recto Verso Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
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One day in the 22nd century.
As a result of catastrophic climate change, plant diversity has been lost, and children only know the forest “virtually.”
Advances in technology have made it possible to live in the virtual world as if it were the real world.
However, is the ultimate advanced technology always our ideal vision of the future?
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