Overview

• Opening on Oct. 4 at the former Bank of Japan Hiroshima branch, the display features 68 monochrome prints selected from the archive.
• The photographs, taken from 1966 into the early 1970s, capture everyday scenes such as waiting for a parent or having ears cleaned.
• The subjects are people born with brain and bodily disabilities after their mothers were exposed to atomic-bomb radiation during pregnancy.
• Photographers Masahiko Shigeta, 81, and Kiyomi Suganuma, 78, produced the work after meeting as students at Tokyo Photo College in 1965.
• Kinoko-kai, a group formed in 1965 by affected people and families, co-organized the exhibition to convey the harm of nuclear weapons and advocate abolition.