Publisher/日本写真企画

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Japanese photographer Akira Nakayama's photo collection ``Chikuho Afterimage ``Female Miners Now''. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1927, he graduated from a local medical school after the war and opened a business in Tagawa in 1954. Around the same time, Yo Nakayama also began producing and creating photographs. Since then, for nearly 20 years, the motif of the works he has taken under the theme of "faults" is "Chikuho." It goes without saying that it is Japan's largest coal mining town, and it is also the birthplace of master master Ken Domon's ``Chikuho Children'' (1960), which depicts the harsh realities of life behind the country's economic growth. When Nakayama was a contract doctor at Tagawa's Child Guidance Center, he visited the same facility, interacted with children, and apparently watched Ken Domon take photographs up close. Yo Nakayama has been photographing the rise and fall of the Chikuho coalfields from the 1950s to the 1970s, as if fulfilling his mission as a local. Since the mine was closed in the 1970s, in order to preserve the harsh history of that time, which has been forgotten for the next generation, Nakayama carefully interviewed the female miners who worked at the site at the time, while capturing the afterimage of the area. This book contains the "strength of women" that withstood such harsh conditions and the solid facts that we must never forget.