Tag: Akihiko Okamura

A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland

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 small,” looking for what we might learn of desire, sadness, loneliness, or dreaming among the dispersed, matter-of-fact materials of daily life

https://aperture.org/editorial/akihiko-okamuras-outsider-view-of-northern-ireland

June 29, 2024
The Memories of Others | Conscientious Photography Magazine

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 then West Germany.

https://cphmag.com/the-memories-of-others/

June 18, 2024