About Akihiko Okamura
Lived 1929 – 1985 (aged 55–56). Akihiko Okamura was a Japanese photographer and journalist.
was a Japanese photographer.
Work Okamura was a war photographer, in the first years of the Vietnam War, as well as in conflict zones in Ethiopia, Biafra, and Northern Ireland.
Publications All About Life and Death. Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 2014. . The Memories of Others. Prestel, 2024. .
Exhibitions Solo exhibitions Akihiko Okamura: All About Life and Death, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, July–September 2014 Akihiko Okamura: The Memories of Others, Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, 11 April – 6 July 2024
Group exhibitions Strange and Familiar, Barbican Centre, London, March–June 2016
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Japanese photographer (1929–1985)
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Akihiko Okamura was born in 1929 in Tokyo.
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Akihiko Okamura was a photographer and journalist.
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