Kazuya Urakawa is a photographer and first-class architect born in Sapporo in 1972 and based in Tokyo. Working with themes of cities, architecture, and the memory of place, he creates photographic works based on research and fieldwork.
Places of Amnesia is a self-published artist’s book bringing together a project centered on vacant lots in Mukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo. Urakawa photographs vacant lots at night—spaces created through redevelopment and the demolition of buildings—recording the memories of places that are disappearing within the city.
Through sites where buildings and the traces of human activity have become invisible, the book looks at how cities are renewed and forgotten. Combining an architectural perspective with photographic observation, it brings into view the quiet voids left behind amid urban change.
Places of Amnesia Kazuya Urakawa Self-published 297 × 419 × 2 mm
