Title: The Memories of Others
Photographer(s): Akihiko Okamura
Writer(s): Masako Toda, Trish Lambe, Pauline Vermare, Sean O'Hagan, Kusi Okamura
Designer(s): François Dézafit
Publisher(s): Prestel, Munchen,London, New York
Year: 2024
Print run:
Language(s): English
Pages: 160
Size: 19,5 x 28,0 cm
Binding: Hardcover
Edition:
Print: Grammlich GmbH, Pliezhausen, Germany
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: North Ireland, 1968-1978
ISBN: 978-3-7913-9324-7
Akihiko Okamura became a renowned war photographer during the first years of the Vietnam war and later, as he documented wars in Biafra and the Middle East. In 1969, he moved from Southeast Asia to Dublin. From there, Okamura traveled frequently to Derry and other parts of Northern Ireland to document the country’s “Troubles.” This beautifully produced book brings together for the first time Okamura’s Irish work, which was almost entirely unpublished before now. Presented in full page plates without text, Okamura’s images are imbued with soft, muted colors that contrast with the violence of the situation in which they were conceived. Brimming with feelings of fear, dread, anticipation, and resignation, these images reveal Okamura’s humanity and curiosity, his concern with day-to-day existence, and the absurdities, incongruities, and disruptions of life during wartime: women preparing afternoon tea outside bombed rowhouses; girls dressed in their Sunday best leaving flowers at a roadside shrine; a collection of empty milk bottles destined to become incendiary devices. Illuminating essays by renowned photographic historians and experts place this astounding collection in context with Okamura’s larger body of work and situate these images within the history of both the medium and the country.
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