Dreamland
Byungha Han
Negative Gallery
Japanese
Text by Koji Onaka
Softcover
Edition of 300
33 pages
230 x 185 mm
2024
The artist presents Dreamland, an amusement park in Nara Prefecture, Japan, which has now disappeared. Dreamland opened in 1961 and operated until 2006. During its heyday, it was visited by 1.7 million people a year, but with the advent of Tokyo Disneyland, it began to decline and eventually closed due to operating deficits. After its closure, it was demolished in 2016 and left unattended for 10 years until it disappeared into the back alleys of history in 2017. Dreamland, which was called ‘Haikyo’ by the Japanese, is revived through the artist’s photos as a nostalgia for a faded childhood filled with fantasy and dreams.
(source: https://www.artbava.com/exhibit/dreamland )
About the Artist
Byungha Han is a Photographer based in Korea
About the Publisher
Negative Gallery is a publisher based in Busan, Korea.
https://www.gallerynegative.co.kr
