Publisher/サウダージ・ブックス

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A photo collection by Japanese photographer Haruo Ohara, "Light of Brazil, Family Landscapes." Born in Kochi Prefecture in 1909, he moved to Brazil with his family at the age of 17, and spent nearly 70 years thereafter cultivating farmland in undeveloped land surrounded by virgin forests. He was an agricultural worker, but also a photographer who, in his spare time, devoted himself to his hobby of photography and held numerous solo exhibitions in Brazil, despite being an amateur. From the archives donated after his death, large exhibitions were held in Brazil and Japan, and a documentary was broadcast at the NHK Museum of Art, which caused a great response. For an "immigrant," whose problems are often discussed in terms of harsh working conditions, there are few cases where he lived such a positive life. Furthermore, his skills as a photographer are outstanding, from works that use "farmed land" as a horizon, reminiscent of Shoji Ueda, to illustrations full of "sculptural beauty" reminiscent of Yasuhiro Ishimoto, and humanity of children and families. Please enjoy the many works of this little-known great man who dedicated his life to the foreign land of Brazil and to the camera.