Tag: Akihiko Okamura

  • A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland

    A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland

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    A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland In the 1960s, Akihiko Okamura series “The Memories of Others” recorded the Troubles with understated eloquence. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/akihiko-okamuras-outsider-view-of-northern-ireland/ Okamura singles out low-key moments, discovering worlds within worlds. He seems to be, as W. G. Sebald once said of his fellow writer Robert Walser, a “clairvoyant of…

  • The Memories of Others | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    The Memories of Others | Conscientious Photography Magazine

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    The Memories of Others via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-memories-of-others/ The above is clearly the case for the photographs made by Akihiko Okamura in Northern Ireland around the low-level civil war that typically is being described euphemistically as “the troubles”. When I grew up, that war was a frequent part of the news on TV in…