for japan

I submitted to images to Architecture for Humanity's charity print auction of photographs that raised funds for the long term reconstruction of the tsunami devastated north east region of Japan.


My Father was posted to Japan in 1953, during his National Service with the Royal Fusiliers.  I found his photo album and rephotographed some of the pages. The curators of the exhibition selected an image he had taken from the USAF plane of Mount Fuji in the mist. The image is almost an unconscious nod to Hokusai's 'Thirty-Six Views'.


I also submitted a small version of Umi behind glass, 2006. Umi means ocean in Japanese and in some way recalls the Little Mermaid myth.


The Auction was held at the Hotshoe Gallery in Clerkenwell on August 5th.