Nagasaki Prefectureshimabara-shi
Katsumi Sunamori Photo Exhibition “The Town of Revelation” 30 years after eruption, traces of disaster memory ~30 years after the eruption ~
- Art / Exhibition
- Real-life event
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Admission fee free
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Katsumi Sunamori (1951-2009) was born in 1951 between a Filipino father in Okinawa and the mother of Amami Oshima. After proceeding to the path of a boxer to find a living father, he turned into a photographer in Osaka. A heterogeneous photographer with a rare background of dying from stomach cancer at age 57. In this exhibition, Sunamori captured the fire damage caused by Sunamori in Nagasaki, Shimabara Peninsula, a series of works called “The Town of Revelation” 30 years ago. The picture, which can be said to be the storyteller of the fire damage, is not a collection of photographs, while cutting out the state of the natural disaster brilliantly.
●Katsumi Sunamori (Sunamori, Katsumi) Profile
Born in Okinawa Main Island in 1951, he lived as a boy in Amami Oshima Island, and went to Osaka at the age of 15. After working as a professional boxer (Kenbayashi Kenbai), he became a photographer. Graduated from Osaka College of Photography (Osaka Visual Arts College) in March 1975. In 1984, he won the document file grand prize for the monthly Playboy magazine for the document and photo collection “Osaka Ryu”. In 1996, he was awarded the 15th Ken Domon Award and the 46th Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer Award. He died from stomach cancer in June 2009 at the age of 57.
books
“Kama Tida - Osaka Nishinari” (IPC, 1989)
“Okinawa Shout” (Chikuma Shobo, 1992, renamed “Okinawa Shout” and in 2000 Kodansha Bunko)
“Drifting Island and Maru Water” (Cleo, 1995)
“Okinawa Kibon” (Futabasha, 1998, renamed “Okinawa Stories” and published by Sony Magazines in 2006)
Illustration of the Atomic Bomb 2020 Maruki Museum of Art “Implied Landscape” exhibition, and the Nikon Plaza Tokyo THE GALLERY “CONTACT ZONE” exhibition in 2021.
Organized by: Sunamori Media Archives
Planning: Kazura Sunamori
Supported by: NPO Nagasaki Housing and Town Planning Trust