Sunday, August 2, 2009


Japan 1971
A mother, a Ryoko Uemura, agrees with the American photographer Eugene Smith, be photographed with the daughter of Tomoko Uemura, in a traditional Japanese bath. The purpose of photography was to give a strong signal for the consequences of disease Minamata (a type of mercury poisoning), which arise from the toxic wastes and chemical company Chisso and was «hit» and Tomoko, who eventually died in 1997 at the age of 21.

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