Hinohara Village, Tokyo

Gelatin silver print, black and white, showing a steep hillside reinforced with concrete slope-stabilization structures: a lattice of diagonal crosshatched retaining grids, a paneled concrete wall divided into rectangular blocks, and a lower slope covered in a dense pattern of small interlocking blocks. Bare trees and dark unworked earth appear at the left edge, contrasting with the engineered geometric surfaces that dominate the frame; the high, oblique vantage point compresses the terrain into abstract, overlapping planes. Shibata Toshio, "Hinohara Village, Tokyo," 1994.