Aya Fujioka: Here Goes River

Aya Fujioka began photographing her hometown of Hiroshima after moving back from New York in the 2010s. She started without a clear purpose, and photography became a way of re-experiencing her hometown and coming to accept it again. It also became a record of the real faces and ordinary moments of a city living its everyday life decades after its historic tragedy. Here Goes River collects the snapshots Fujioka made there some seventy years after the atomic bombing. She avoids the familiar image of "Hiroshima" as a city burdened by history, yet her pictures inevitably point back to it: high school students dancing in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome, a girl in a red skirt stepping down toward the river, the stir in the streets when President Obama visited the city. They connect the present to history, and personal experience to collective memory. Winner of the 43rd Kimura Ihei Award (2018).

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