Hellerberg Camp
March 3rd, 2018From Above exhibition at Gallery EF, Tokyo
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.
Esmee
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.
Nagasaki Shimbun
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.
Dresden, February 13th, 1945
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.
Christoph Adam
February 10th, 2018
Nora Lang
February 8th, 2018
Fragile
February 5th, 2018
Fragile
February 2nd, 2018..January 2018.. ..Dresden..
Swallowed by the horizon.
Masatoshi Tsunenari
January 25th, 2018..January 2018.. ..Nagasaki..
Today I received the sad news that atomic bomb survivor Mr. Masatoshi Tsunenari passed away a couple of months ago. He was 89 years old.
I hadn’t seen Mr. Tsunenari since July 2010. He was a soft spoken person with a lot of compassion.
I will always be thankful that he agreed to meet with Mrs. Haruyo Nihei, a Tokyo fire bombing survivor, who wanted to tell her experience of surviving the fire bombing of Tokyo to an atomic bomb survivor. It was an amazing moment to see them listen and exchange stories. Tragic moments in time that changed their lives instantly.
Seeing Mr. Tsunenari listen to and accept Mrs. Nihei’s story was moving. I believe it was a great feeling of relief to Ms. Nihei to be able to share her experience.
This is there portrait I took near the hypocenter where the atomic bomb was detonated in Nagasaki. It’s also in my book From Above and I will show it next time the exhibition returns to Nagasaki.
