The photographic works of Naoya examines, in a serial manner, the city; it’s past, present and future. Experimenting formally, Hatakeyama utilizes the vocabulary of photography to reflect, more generally, upon the relationship between humans and their environment.
Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji, completed graduate studies at Tsukuba University in 1984. Since then , Hatakeyama has been based in Tokyo, a city which has served as a model from which he has developed a body of work concerned largely with the relationship between nature, the city and photography. In addition to his participation in numerous solo and group exhibitions, Hatakeyama’s photographs are found in public collections including the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur; la Maison EuropEéenne de la Photographie, Paris; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Naoya Hatakeyma is represented by Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.