Hanagaki Rumi x Memi Kuramoto ”80 Years After the War: Depicting Peace from the Atomic Bomb"

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• Rumi Hanagaki (Liaison of Conference for Kyoto Atomic Bomb Survivor)

  

  Experienced the atomic bombing in Hiroshima at the age of five.
  2003: After participating in the Kyoto COOP’s Peace in Hiroshima program, recovered some memories.
  2005: Served as a representative of Kyoto COOP to the NPT Review Conference.
  2008: With the support of students from Bukkyo University, published ""Obaachan no Ningyou"" (Grandmother’s Doll).
  Currently serving as the Representative Coordinator of the Kyoto Atomic Bomb Survivors’ Discussion Group.

• Memi Kuramoto (KNOW NUKES TOKYO co-leader)

  

  Born in 2002. After entering university, he became interested in nuclear weapons issues and civil society movements. Later joined “KNOW NUKES TOKYO,” a youth organization that conducts peace education and information dissemination. And involved in the “Giin Watch,” which asks Diet members about their intentions toward a nuclear weapons convention, and the “Japan Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons,” which promotes the elimination of nuclear weapons from both the government and citizens' perspectives. Fourth-year student at the college of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University. Participated in the third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as a member of a Japanese NGO.

• Yusuke Nakanishi (KYOTOGRAPHIE Co-Founders and Directors)

  

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  Lighting Director. Yusuke Nakanishi was born in 1968 in Fukuoka, and currently lives in Kyoto. He travels the world, expressing his impressions of light and shadow from his memories. He has worked as a lighting director for music videos, feature films, stages, music concerts, fashion shows and interior designs. He also created lighting object series eatable lights and Tamashii and has exhibited installations at the Hara Museum, School Gallery (Paris), including Nuit Blanche in Kyoto. He co-founded KYOTOGRAPHIE with Lucille Reyboz in 2013 and is the co-director. In Autumn 2022, he was involved in the creative direction for Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition LIGHT OF FLOWERS, which was held on the grounds of Shimogamo Shrine and the Tadasunomori Forest. In 2023, he co-founded KYOTOPHONIE Borderless Music Festival with Lucille Reyboz.