Chinmoku no Hiroshima = Silent Hiroshima

A collaborative piece by Fumie Nakagawa (interviewer) and Takashi Ozaki (photographer), 'Silent Hiroshima' is a collection of stories from deaf survivors of the atmoic bombing of Hiroshima. Takashi Ozaki sought to photograph something about the events of Hiroshima that had not previously been

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recorded.
'I began to wonder how deaf survivors, who had witnessed the flash and blast of the bomb in silence, had experienced Hiroshima, how they had lived with that experience in their soundless world, and what they were doing today. In persuing these questions, I met Nakagawa Fumie, a sign language interpreter who was interviewing deaf survivorrs to learn their stories. Together with her, I spent six years visiting the people in this book"
(Beginning Abstract by Sarah van Mook)
Second abstract from the Forward by Takashi Ozaki

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