Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography was showing artworks by 5 emerging artists. Although they are all using photograph as a medium, their expressions were beyond our imagination and captured my eyes with excitement.
While Cool Japan and Takashi Murakami's Superflat series have led the charge the world over, blazing the trail for Japanese art on an international platform , another artist has been making inroads into the art scene with less fanfare.
2011 is the 100th anniversary of Taro Okamoto's birth, who gave Yanobe great influence on his life as an artist. In celebration of Okamoto's centenary, several exhibitions have been held this year. The last one is this "Kenji Yanobe: Sun Child, Child of Taro". Colliding with Okamoto's work, Yanobe presents a novel and exciting view before our eyes.
This picture was taken during the WWII in front of a shrine. The family originally lived in Hiroshima prefecture where the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945.