The Truth

January 11th, 2019

Joniece

January 7th, 2019

Michiko Kiyooka

January 2nd, 2019

..January 2019.. ..Tokyo..

I received the sad news that Michiko Kiyooka passed away sometime during 2018. Mrs. Kiyooka was a Tokyo fire bombing survivor that I photographed in 2008. Her portrait and testimony is one of the first to be featured in the From Above project.

She was 21 years old when Tokyo was firebombed on March 10th, 1945. She jumped into the freezing Sumida River to escape the furious firestorm consuming everything it’s path. Hours after she managed to pull herself to an area along the banks that was safe. She headed towards a contained fire underneath a bridge to get some warmth but had no idea the fire was a pile of corpses. She lost her father and sister when they froze to death and drown in the Sumida. Their bodies were taken out 3 days later.

Each time I stare at the murky waters of the Sumida I can’t imagine the sorrow Mrs. Kiyooka carried all of her life.

NHK Nagasaki Interview at From Above exhibition

December 30th, 2018
..December 2018.. ..Nagasaki.. Link to an NHK Nagasaki interview broadcast last week from the From Above exhibition at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims.

NHK Nagasaki from Paule Saviano on Vimeo.

Marie

December 27th, 2018

The Truth

December 22nd, 2018

Kat

November 18th, 2018

Coventry Blitz, Operation Moonlight Sonata

November 16th, 2018

Fragile

November 13th, 2018

Bornholmer Brücke

November 9th, 2018

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