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From Above exhibition at Gallery EF, Tokyo

Tuesday, February 27th, 2018

..February 2018.. ..Tokyo..

Metropolis Magazine has featured the upcoming From Above exhibition in it’s event calender.

From Above, featuring portraits of atomic bomb and fire bombing victims from WWII, will be exhibited at Gallery EF in Tokyo, March 13th-April 2nd, 2018.

This From Above exhibition corresponds with the 73rd anniversary of the Tokyo fire bombings that destroyed the city during WWII. It features portraits of firebombing survivors from Tokyo, and other WWII fire bombing survivors from Dresden, Coventry, Rotterdam and Wielun. A small selection of atomic bomb survivor portraits will also be shown to display all the areas that From Above has focused on.

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Esmee

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Esmee is a transgender girl living in the Netherlands. She began transitioning 2 1/2 years ago at the age of 9. One of her hobbies is horse back riding. She is photographed with her favorite horse Shamo.

“Esmee is a wonderful, bright, intelligent, happy, sensitive, funny, caring, beautiful and lovely girl. And we as parents are very proud of her. We went to the rest of our family and told everyone about our daughter, which everybody accepted immediately. Even the neighborhood embraced Esmee instantly. We are very blessed with such understanding people around us, it’s very important for transgenders to be accepted for who they are.” -Esmee’s parents Riena and Henk

This is a portrait from my project “Embrace” featuring portraits of transgender and gender non-binary youth and adults from different parts of the world.

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Nagasaki Shimbun

Sunday, February 18th, 2018

..February 2017.. ..Nagasaki..

The Nagasaki Shimbun just published an article about the From Above exhibtion which was held at the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims. From Above features portraits of atomic bomb and fire bombing victims from WWII.

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Dresden, February 13th, 1945

Sunday, February 11th, 2018

..Dresden Altmarkt..

The only memorial within the old town which acknowledges the civilians who perished during the firebombing of Dresden on February 13th and 14th, 1945.

For weeks an unknown amount of bodies were cremated on this spot in the Altmarkt.

Today the Altmarkt is still the old square of Dresden, with a large parking garage underneath. You have to be aware that this small plague exists or you will walk passed it without noticing.

Some other memorials remembering the dead are also located at various mass graves in the city’s cemeteries at the Dresden Heidefriedhof and Johannisfriedhof Cemetery. The mass grave at Johannisfriedhof wasn’t revealed to the public until after the fall of the DDR in 1990, 45 years after Dresden was destroyed.