Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 10, 1 ʻOkakopa 1990 — Photo exhibit documents H-3 construction [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Photo exhibit documents H-3 construction

"H-3: Before Luluku After Ha'iku" a photographic essay by Mark Hamasaki and Anne K. Landgraf, is now on display and continues through Nov. 2 at the Ho'omaluhia Park Visitor Center Exhibition Room. One hundred nine black and white photographs document the construction of Hawaii's thirdinterstate highway. It is a geographical journey whieh reflects the dramatically changed landscape between the new Halekou interchange to the tunnel at Ha'iku. This visual record of earth being moved and altered, of machines and man-made materials being used to form engineered designs, creates a lyrical portrayal of man's tremendous impact on the environment. "This is a self-funded project," says Mark Hamasaki. "We are doing this because H-3 is being developed in our neighborhood whieh we feel very close to and strongly about. The freeway is inevitable at this point so what we are trying to do is document the change and the effect the eonstruction has on the environment. People never see the details of the actual construction; they only see the completed project and ean only imagine what it was like before." Photographer Anne K. Landgraf, a graduate of the University of Hawai'i and Kamehameha Schools was born and raised in Kane'ohe. In 1987 she published "£ Na Hulu Kupuna Na Puna Ola Maoli No," a eolleehon of photographs and oral histories. She is presently working on a book of photographs and plaee names of Ko'olau Poko, O'ahu. Mark Hamasaki, an instructor of photography at Windward Community College, has been living in Windward O'ahu since 1980. A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology and Basel School of Design, his photographs have been exhibited in Basel. Switzerland. California, New York and Hawai'i. The photographers have been documenting the H-3 since March 1989. This exhibit is an interim work, since fhe eomplehon date for the construction of H-3 is in 1994. "Since this is possibly the last major earthwork project on O'ahu, we are trying to be as objective as possible in creating a visual record for future generations." This photographic essay represents our visual song or poem of our reactions to the altered landscape, Hamasaki said.

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