Kenji Higuchi
Kenji Higuchi has been a professor of photography at several institutions in Tokyo, and an instructor at the Nippon Photography Institute. He is the eldest son of a farmer and at the age of 24 took up photography after viewing Robert Capa's famous war photos. He published some of the first images of nuclear workers toiling inside a reactor in 1977. Higuchi's photos mainly depict people and situations associated with nuclear issues and he won a Nuclear-Free Future Award.
Higuchi has documented the struggles of radiation victims and, over a half-century, has written 19 books, including The Truth About Nuclear Plants and Erased Victims. Since the 2011 Fukushima I nuclear accidents his work has gained more attention.
From 2013 - Started producing "Mamademo", a team of single mothers.
Because Higuchi can't use PC. Members of Mamademo have been working everything instead of him.
Mamademo" is an activist team for women's rights, nuclear power, radiation exposure, and environmental protection. Mamademo has been producing lectures, photo exhibitions, and collaborative projects with Higuchi, and has been enhancing its website and other social media. Kenji Higuchi - Photojournalist who has continued to photograph nuclear power plants and A-bombed workers" on NHK.
In September 2014, he held his first photo exhibition and lecture in South Korea. Invited to give a lecture at the Japan-Korea Nuclear Workshop.
All since 2013: Creation, management, composition, planning, production, photo panelization, layout, etc. of the website of the activist team "Mamademo". Uozumi also plans to promote Higuchi's books, photo collections, and achievements to overseas countries, such as the UK, Taiwan, Korea, France, Germany, Poland, etc., and to receive interviews.
However it has some problems, they completely volunteers, recently Power harassment to them by him is a big problem in Japan. Japan has male and female dominance.
https://happymamademo.jimdofree.com/
On March 11, 2017, Chieko Uozumi, representative of 1/2History, a lecture by Kenji Higuchi and a photo exhibition were held at Ecotop and other churches. Then, in London, England, at the invitation of JapaneseAgainstNukes, Higuchi and Uozumi gave a lecture and a speech as a mother activist, respectively, on radiation exposure of nuclear power plant workers at the Houses of Parliament.
In 2019/Feb~Apr, Kenji Higuchi photo exhibition by SayonaraNukesDuesseldorf.
. https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/sayonara-nukes-duesseldorf- aktivistinnen-kaempfen-gegen-atomokraft_aid-37670363
January 11 - March 29, 2020, Kenji Higuchi Photo Exhibition "Fuji and Foothills" at PlazaGallery, Chofu, Tokyo.
From May 2020, Kenji Higuchi's photo exhibition and lectures organized by SayonaraNukesDuesseldorf, and other lectures in Europe. ~Photographs and interviews related to nuclear power plants are posted semi-permanently on the website of the German Bell Foundation : https://www.boell.de/fukushima-ist-noch-nicht-geschichte.