TITLE: Map of Silence

Map of Silence explores landscapes where memory lingers quietly—places marked by war, displacement, or invisible tension. In Hebron, a boy leans against a wall beneath a sealed street. In Dandong, a bombed bridge spans a frozen border. These are not just sites of history, but of absence—where stories remain untold, and silence settles like dust. Each image traces what persists beyond visibility: a still figure, a breath of air, the residue of a moment. Photography becomes an act of listening—to what was left unsaid, to what lies beneath the surface. This series does not seek to document events, but to remain near what cannot be spoken. In these images, silence is not emptiness, but the echo of what remains.

AUTHOR: Tetsugo Hyakutake (Japan)

Tetsugo Hyakutake (b. 1975, Tokyo) is a Japanese artist whose photographic work examines memory, history, and postwar identity through landscapes marked by war, ideology, and disappearance. He moved to the U.S. in 2003 and received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, where he was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. In 2016–2017, he participated in the artist residency at ISCP, New York.

Hyakutake’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Camera Austria (Graz), the Brooklyn Army Terminal (New York), and in Philadelphia, Madrid, Singapore, and Taipei. His works are held in collections such as the Library of Congress (U.S.), Carnegie Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art. He currently lives and works in Japan.