Naoya Hatakeyama’s home town in Iwate, Japan, was almost completely swept away by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, along with his family home, the landmarks of his childhood and his mother, who tragically lost her life. In the years that followed the photographer returned to the region, documenting its transformation and rebirth in the series Rikuzentakata.Excavating the Future City: Photographs by Naoya Hatakeyama is at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 4 March–22 July. A book to accompany the exhibition is published in April.