has been a professor of
photography
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...
at several institutions in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
, and an instructor at the . He is the eldest son of a farmer and at the age of 24 took up photography after viewing
Robert Capa
Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some to ...
's famous war photos. He published some of the first images of nuclear workers toiling inside a reactor in 1977. Higuchi's photos mainly depict people and situations associated with nuclear issues and he won a
Nuclear-Free Future Award Since 1998 the Nuclear-Free Future Award (NFFA) is an award given to anti-nuclear activists, organizations and communities. The award is intended to promote opposition to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and nuclear power.
The NFFA is a project of ...
.
[ Kenji Higuchi, 2001 Nuclear-Free Future Education Award Recipient]
Higuchi has documented the struggles of radiation victims and, over a half-century, has written 19 books, including ''The Truth About Nuclear Plants'' and ''Erased Victims''. Since the 2011
Fukushima I nuclear accidents
The was a nuclear accident in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan. The proximate cause of the disaster was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which occurred on the afternoon of 11 March 2011 and ...
his work has gained more attention.
See also
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Robert Del Tredici
Robert Del Tredici is a Canadian photographer, artist, and activist, who documented the impact of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident on the community. His first book of photographs and interviews, ''The People of Three Mile Island'' (Sierra Club B ...
References
External links
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Hōdō shashinshūsei'' publisher's description. Includes a chronology of the photographer.
Living people
Japanese photojournalists
Japanese anti–nuclear power activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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