"Pathos and Irony: Industrial Still-Life in Japan"- a series of photographs of factories, plants and other industrial buildings taken in my home country. Japan is a country heavily dependent on the manufacturing industry, due to its lack of raw materials and agriculture. I grew up as a child hating factories because of the air pollution and water contamination they caused. However, in later years, when I drove by these industrial areas, the factories looked beautiful because of their mythological structures and colored lighting at night or in twilight. Irony lies in the contradictory beauty and pollution. Japan obtained strong economic power by the development of industrials, but we also sacrificed our fathers in workaholism. That is the “truth” I find with Japanese industrialism. My work is also a tribute to those who made it possible for Japan to become an economic superpower through its industrialization.