Ravensbrück concentration camp
April 26th, 2020
Fragile
April 17th, 2020
Fragile
April 15th, 2020
Tsukasa Uchida
April 12th, 2020
..April 2020.. ..Nagasaki..
I received sad news that Mr. Tsukasa Uchida passed away on April 6th 2020. He was 90 years old and had been in the hospital for months.
Mr. Uchida experienced the atomic bombing of Nagasaki when he was 15 years old. He was rescued from underneath rubble at the Ohashi Plant of the Mitsubishi Arms Factory about a mile north of the hypocenter. Using a broken stick as a cane he struggled to get away from the burning factory and found refugee on a mountain.
When I photographed Mr. Uchida in 2016 he was in fragile condition but had a sharp mind. He spoke about his experiences in exact detail for two hours.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to have met such a brave person. Mr. Uchida has taught many people about the horrors of nuclear weapons. His passing is a great loss to humanity.
“I was heading to the rescue train using a wood stick.
There were rice fields on the way, I found something in there.
On first sight, I thought they were pumpkins, but they were human heads.”
-Tsukasa Uchida
私は木の棒をついて救援列車に向かった。
そこまでの道に田んぼがあり、その中にかぼちゃかなと思ったら、
人間の首が5つか6つ転がっていた。
内田伯
Marie
April 9th, 2020
Embrace featured in Tokyo Weekender Magazine
April 8th, 2020..April 2020.. ..Tokyo..
Tokyo Weekender Magazine did a feature about Embrace. Embrace is my project featuring portraits of transgender and gender non-binary people from different parts of the world.
The project will be exhibited at Gallery ef in Tokyo from September 2nd-October 25th.
This is the digital link to the magazine. https://www.tokyoweekender.com/weekender-archives/
If you click on the first cover (April 2020) then go to page 28 the article about Embrace begins.
Fragile
April 5th, 2020
Fragile
April 2nd, 2020
New Synagogue, Dresden
March 31st, 2020
Haruyo Nihei
March 6th, 2020
“I survived by the grace of the deceased.
But to stop history from repeating itself I have to speak.”
-Haruyo Nihei, Tokyo firebomb survivor
Mrs. Haruyo Nihei experienced the firebombing of Tokyo on the night of March 10th, 1945. Bombers carpeted Tokyo with spread incendiary bombs for hours and after the bombing ceased, the city was wrapped in flames. Almost everything burnt in the city.
“The fire died down because there was nothing left to be burnt. I remember walking the site of fire, by stepping over charred bodies”
When the bombing started she began to escape with her family, but the flames cornered her and
she was separated from them. The streets were full of panic. She fell down and fainted. People then piled
on top of her. She, and others near the bottom of the pile, survived because the people near the top
bore the brunt of the inferno.
This portrait is a part of my From Above project which featured portraits of atomic bomb and firebombing survivors from WWII. My limited edition book is available at http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=I1040&i&i2