Shinichiro Matsukawa (b. 1973, Tokyo) is a Japanese photographer examining how humans attempt to stabilize landscapes through civil engineering—coastal armor, dams, erosion-control works, hillside reinforcements, and river management structures. His ongoing project, Nature's Treatment, reads these interventions as medical gestures: acts of care, control, and sometimes misdiagnosis, whose outcomes remain uncertain until nature returns its verdict.
Matsukawa's focus shifted from "survival" to "intervention" after a decade of documentary work in extreme cold regions—Norilsk (2018), Mongolia (2019), Yakutsk (2020)—where he observed how people and environments adapt under severe conditions. These experiences moved his attention from the spectacle of harsh places to the quieter procedures by which humans negotiate with them.
Working with a medium-format digital system, he photographs landscapes as if compiling case files: evidence meant to be revisited, where the meaning of an intervention is decided not immediately, but years later.
Matsukawa is a member of The Photographic Society of Japan.