Akihiko Okamura - Les souvenirs des autres super 8

Akihiko Okamura - Les souvenirs des autres super 8Atelier EXB 2024 French language edition This book brings together for the first time Akihiko Okamura's work in Ireland, on the occasion of the digitization of this virtually unpublished corpus, accompanied by texts that contextualize his work within the history of the period and that of the photographic medium. During the Troubles, the struggle for independence that lasted from 1969 to 1998, Northern Ireland attracted a large number of foreign

houses are suspended on stacked railroad ties

two 6mm drill holes

crowds of tourists now stroll through the streets

The camera formats change

the Hambach Forest has become a symbol not only of the protest against the anachronistic use of lignite

and the abstraction of memory

invoking contemplation and peace

all because… well

" The items photographed range from bizarre objects found at the Booth Museum of Natural History

and published on the occasion of an exhibition at GoEun Museum of Photography in Buson

or moonlight

Are you a spy