ISSN: 2594-2999

Image: Jim Platel

Seiji Shinohara Born in Hokkaido, Japan. He has been living in Mexico for 47 years. Has used a Hasselblad 6×6 camera for more than 25 years. Founder of Foto Club Azteca Nippon in Mexico, cdmx and first official member in Mexico of the Photographic Society of Japan. Author of several photobooks in which he portrays the Japanese community in Mexico.

Entrevistas

Vol 6 No 11 (2023)

The Iridescence of the Lanterns: Hiroshima Behind the Lens of Seiji Shinohara

Interview with
Seiji Shinohara

Arturo Gutierrez del Angel
Frances Paola Garnica Quiñones
Greta alvarado lugo

Seiji Shinohara's photographs seem to question this image and turn it upside down, because his gaze is not that Hiroshima, but that place that does not coincide with our imagination, lined with large gates, with Buddhist offerings among the alleys, architectural details of Shinto shrines, cobblestone roads, cherry trees reflected in the rivers and daily announcements that insinuate inhabited streets, vivid... leaving out of the frame any silhouette or individual.

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ISSN: 2594-2999.

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