Victoire Thierrée - Okinawa!! Documentary Selenium toned gelatin silver print

Selenium toned gelatin silver print on warm tone Ilford glossy fibre-based paper

Seiichi Furuya found super 8 film rolls in his attic

40 colour plates

and is thus the common thread of her questioning

Text by Bruno de Franceschi

Victoire Thierrée - Okinawa!! Documentary Selenium toned gelatin silver printVictoire Thierre discovered the island of Okinawa through the work of the photographer Shomei Tomatsu (19302012) on her first visit to Japan in 2012. Tomatsu was the first photographer to document the US military presence in Okinawa, a project that culminated in the publication of Okinawa, Okinawa, Okinawa in 1969. During a trip in 2019, Thierre explored this island, where thirty two US military bases are still in operation, staffed by some 10,000