Posts Tagged ‘Hibakusha’
Takashi Tanemori
Saturday, August 6th, 2016Interview with NCC Nagasaki
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016..July 2010.. ..Nagasaki..
An old interview broadcast by NCC Nagasaki about my From Above exhibition, the first time it was exhibited at the Nagasaki Peace Museum.
2 From Above NCC from Paule Saviano on Vimeo.
From Above interview on The John Batchelor Show on WABC Radio
Friday, June 17th, 2016..June 2016.. ..New York..
This is the link to Thursday night’s interview about From Above on The John Batchelor Show on WABC Radio. We cover some of my journey to Hiroshima and Nagasaki photographing atomic bomb survivors (hibakusha) and the upcoming exhibition at the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall opening in December.
A huge thank you to Mr. Batchelor for having me on the show for the third to speak about From Above. The John Batchelor show is the highest rated radio show in New York at the 9pm time slot. Honored again to be asked back to the show!
Hypocenter Nagasaki
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016..September 2008 Nagasaki..
..It’s time I start to figure out who I am..
Instead of telling people where I am..
“Our World is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace.”
Gen. Omar Bradley
November 11, 1948
Michi Hirata
Monday, March 28th, 2016
Masahito Hirose
Thursday, January 14th, 2016
“We cannot listen to the voices that vanished near the hypocenter.
No matter how many testimonies I gather, a blank will remain.”
-Masahito Hirose
Today I received the sad news that Mr. Masahito Hirose passed away, two months before his 86th birthday. I photographed Mr. Hirose on my second trip to Nagasaki. He was 15 years old when the atomic bomb destroyed the city. He didn’t sustain any external injuries from the blast but suffered from cancer.
After the H-Bomb test on Bikini Atoll in 1954, Mr. Hirose devoted his life to collecting the testimonies of other hibaksuha (atomic bomb survivors). While recording the stories it allowed him to confront his own tragic experiences.
Mr. Hirose spoke fluent English so he was one of the few hibakusha I was able to speak with directly. His language skills were important because he was one of the first to translate the hibakusha’s testimony into English. When I first read about him I immiediately asked if I could meet him. I have always been grateful for his honesty and time.
He will be missed but never forgotten.
Rumi Hanagaki
Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
From Above
Saturday, January 2nd, 2016..January 2016.. ..New York..
Some holiday cards from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden and Rotterdam that I received from survivors I photographed for the From Above project.
Mr. Toshifumi Ohashi
Friday, January 1st, 2016..December 2015.. ..Hiroshima..
Sadly, 2015 saw the passing of atomic bomb survivor Mr. Toshifumi Ohashi, who I photographed for From Above. He passed away the day after speaking at my exhibition in New York. I was fortunate to have heard him one last time before he suddenly died.
I have a great deal of respect for what he endured and stood for later in life. I never understood why he thanked me so much for being interested in lives the lives of atomic bomb survivors because they naturally seemed like extraordinary people to me. They lived every moment demonstrating that peace begins with your actions then it can be spread exponentially.
I never had doubts about what they fought for. I need to thank them because they had more trust in me at times than I had in myself. I hope that my photographs will continue to carry on their message even though their voices have gone silent.
Willy Buchel van Steenbergen
Friday, December 4th, 2015