Archive for the ‘Hibakusha’ Category
Takashi Tanemori
Thursday, January 26th, 2017From Above at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims
Monday, January 2nd, 2017..December 2016.. ..Nagasaki..
Day after Christmas, the From Above exhibition has ended. Thank you to the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims for the great opportunity to show my hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) portraits.
I hope to return again soon.
From Above exhibition at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims.
Wednesday, December 28th, 2016..December 2016.. ..Nagasaki..
At the From Above exhibition with Masanobu Chita, Director of the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims.
From Above featured in Nagasaki Shimbun article
Tuesday, December 27th, 2016..December 2016.. ..Nagasaki..
Article in the Nagasaki Shimbun (Newspaper) about my recent From Above exhibition at the Nagasaki Memorial Peace Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims.
From Above exhibition at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims
Sunday, December 25th, 2016..December 2016.. ..Nagasaki..
From Above exhibition at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims from Paule Saviano on Vimeo.
The final day of my From Above exhibition at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims. It was an honor to have been asked by the Peace Hall to participate in the Nagasaki Peace Film Forum and to have met with many of the hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) I’ve photographed in the past.
Thank you to everyone who attended and to the many people who helped make this possible throughout the eight years of the project. Without them there would not be an exhibition or project.
From Above exhibition at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims
Thursday, December 22nd, 2016..December 2016.. ..Nagasaki..
From Above exhibition at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims is a part of 2016 Nagasaki International Peace Film Forum. The exhibition runs through December 25th.
The project hasn’t been exhibited in Nagasaki for two years so there are plenty of new portraits that are being shown for the first time in Japan.
From Above exhibition Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims
Wednesday, November 30th, 2016..November 2016.. ..Nagasaki..
From Above will be exhibited at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims as a part of 2016 Nagasaki International Peace Film Forum. The opening is on December 10th and the exhibition runs through December 25th.
The project hasn’t been exhibited in Nagasaki for two years so there are plenty of new portraits that will be shown for the first time in Japan.
Akiko Mizuta Seitelbach
Monday, August 8th, 2016
Urakami Cathedral, Nagasaki, Japan
Sunday, August 7th, 2016..September 2008 Nagasaki..
7AM walk before 2nd day of portraits
….500 feet above my head the 2nd atomic bomb detonated on August 9th, 1945. Blood, fire, black rain, and heat engulfed everywhere around me. For a split second the temperature at the epicenter reached 1 million degrees. 100 feet to my right corpses piled on the river creating a dam of death that stopped the flow of water. The Urakami Cathedral a 1/2 mile down the street collapsed and fell down a hillside. Part of the tower still sits at the bottom.
..2nd day in Nagasaki at the epicenter of the atomic bomb, I don’t think the entire story has ever been told or ever will be comprehended.
The reality hit me seeing the bell tower of the Urakami Cathedral at the bottom of the hill. It once towered on the top of the hill overlooking canal. Toppled like a home made of wooden blocks thrown across a room.
I took some rocks from the grounds of Urakami Church and wrote Love, Peace, Compassion. Took a bunch of rocks home with Japanese writing. An unlikely souvenir that I will always keep.
Takashi Tanemori
Saturday, August 6th, 2016