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Kenji Higuchi

Illustration — Kenji Higuchi in 2015 Kenji Higuchi has been a professor of photography at several institutions in Tokyo, and an instructor at the Nihon Shashin Geijutsu Senmon Gakkō. 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.

Kenji Higuchi

ママデモ主催講座で講演する樋口健二

Ryota Nakanishi · 樋口健二 Kenji_Higuchi 原発問題報道カメラマン ママデモ主催講座にて Photographed by the professional filmmaker Ryota Nakanishi · CC BY-SA 2.0

Born
1937
Nationality
Japan
Occupation
photographer · journalist · photojournalist
Languages
Japanese

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Illustration — Kenji Higuchi in 2015 Kenji Higuchi has been a professor of photography at several institutions in Tokyo, and an instructor at the Nihon Shashin Geijutsu Senmon Gakkō. 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.

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