A commercial for the From Above photography exhibition in Hiroshima, Japan.
The book, From Above, will be available at the venue. It will be officially released in Japan next week and throughout the US and Europe soon after. I’ll be sending out information on the book release as soon the book is available in the stores and on-line.
From Above
Photography Exhibition in Hiroshima
By Paule Saviano
Venue
Cafe Cheers
2F, 3-12-3 Yokogawa-cho, Nishi-ku, Hiroshima-city
(3 minutes walk from JR Yokogawa station)
TEL 082-295-5799
http://www.cusi.ne.jp/cheers/
August 3rd – 31st 2011
Open: 11:00-18:00
closed on Tuesdays & 15-18 August
entrance free
Related events:
“STORIES FROM ABOVE”
FRI. 5 August
OPEN 19:00 START 19:30
admission: Adv. 2,500 Yen/ Door 3.000 Yen with 1 drink
Koto (Shunobue flute), Shoko Fujii (reading)
A commercial for the From Above photography exhibition in Hiroshima, Japan.
The book, From Above, will be available at the venue. It will be officially released in Japan next week and throughout the US and Europe soon after. I’ll be sending out information on the book release as soon the book is available in the stores and on-line.
From Above
Photography Exhibition in Hiroshima
By Paule Saviano
Venue
Cafe Cheers
2F, 3-12-3 Yokogawa-cho, Nishi-ku, Hiroshima-city
(3 minutes walk from JR Yokogawa station)
TEL 082-295-5799
http://www.cusi.ne.jp/cheers/
August 3rd – 31st 2011
Open: 11:00-18:00
closed on Tuesdays & 15-18 August
entrance free
Related events:
“STORIES FROM ABOVE”
FRI. 5 August
OPEN 19:00 START 19:30
admission: Adv. 2,500 Yen/ Door 3.000 Yen with 1 drink
Koto (Shunobue flute), Shoko Fujii (reading)
These are the posters for the upcoming From Above photo exhibition in Hiroshima from August 3rd-31st.
This will be the 5th exhibition of the on-going portrait series about Hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors. This series in Hiroshima has not been shown before.
The book, From Above, will be released in Japan next week and is available at the venue. It will also be released in the US and Europe shortly after. I’m hoping it will be delivered to the stores in the US by the first week of August. More information will be posted next week on where it’s available on-line and in stores.
The exhibition will move to the Kyoto Peace Museum during September. The prints shown in Kyoto will be different than in Hiroshima. I will post information about the Kyoto exhibition in a couple of weeks.
I received the sad news Mrs. Suzuko Numata passed away on July 12th, 2011, at age of 87.
She was an atomic bomb survivor, an Hibakuska, I photographed during November 2010. I spent many hours with her at the elderly home listening to her story. She was one of the kindest people I’ve ever stumbled upon.
There is a famous photo of her taken soon after the atomic bombing showing her amputated leg. But, I hope the portrait I took of her months before her passing demonstrate how warm and caring a person she was.
She passed away three weeks before the release of From Above, the book that will include her portrait. I’m sorry she will not be here to see her portrait. I consider myself lucky to be able to share her stories through the portrait and words in the book.
Mrs. Numata is the 5th person to pass away since I began photographing the project 3 years ago.
Today I received the sad news that Mrs. Chisa Tanimoto passed away on May 4th, 2011 at the age of 95. I photographed Mrs. Tanimoto in Hiroshima during November 2010. She is the third hibakusha, atomic bomb survivor, I’ve photographed to have passed away in the last 4 months and fourth to have passed since the start of the project.
We were introduced by her daughter Koko Tanimoto-Kondo. They are the first parent and child hibakusha I have photographed.
I didn’t spend much time with Mrs. Tanimoto because of her fragile health. But those few moments we spent together were memorable.
Mrs. Tanimoto was the wife of the well-known minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto, famous for his work with the Hiroshima Maidens and support for war orphans. Mrs. Tanimoto life was also equally as devoted to seeking peace. The family has worked constantly helping provide homes for war orphans and relief to hibakusha.
It was an honor to have met Mrs. Chisa Tanimoto.
Her portrait will be a part of the upcoming book, From Above, released on July 27th by publisher Contents Factory. Her portrait will also be shown in the upcoming exhibition at the Kyoto Peace Museum during September 2011.
From Above is my continuing series of portraits about atomic bomb Survivors and fire bombing survivors from Tokyo and Dresden. There are also events happening around the photo exhibition.
From Above
February 10th-28th, 2011
Ortsamt Blasewitz
Naumannstraße 5
010309 Dresden
Germany
