We have just finished our Shomei Tomatsu exhibition and working for some weeks amongst and with some of the icons of the history of world photography was a fantastic experience.

The last two weeks I was so busy with our new show on Yutaka Takanashi (the works will be online soon) and the current Art Cologne fair that I forgot to post this three part essay on Shomei Tomatsu by the critic Minoru Shimizu published in ART-iT:

Minoru Shimizu: Shomei Tomatsu: Hues and Textures of Nagasaki exhibition

Part I: Historical Background

Part II: ‘11:02 Nagasaki’

Part III: Darkness and colors

Shomei Tomatsu: “Atomic Bomb Damage: Wristwatch Stopped at 11:02, August 9, 1945”, 1961
© Shomei Tomatsu, courtesy Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne