ANDERS PETERSEN: OKINAWA + SIGNED POSTER KOLODOZERO they are my personal encounters

they are my personal encounters and scenes

presenting his subjects with both empathy and formal mastery

provides the reader with a balanced and nuanced survey of this history of Japanese photography

“I’ve always been interested in small groups of marginalized people who no one would know about otherwise

ANDERS PETERSEN: OKINAWA + SIGNED POSTER KOLODOZERO they are my personal encountersAnders Petersen shot the images in his photobook Okinawa in the year 2000, during a three week long residence for the project European Eyes on Japan. Petersen concentrated his shooting on the streets of Naha City, documenting the people, the cats, the dogs either candidly or in posed portraits. Always on his mind was the gruel history Okinawa suffered during the Second World War. When walking the streets of Naha it was clear. This shy and caring