An exhibition featuring works by well-known Japanese photojournalist Hirokawa Ryuichi will take place in Minsk and Gomel on April 19-20. The exhibition will be dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe and will be held as part of the events timed to the tragic date.
The press service of the Belarusian Council of Ministers' Chernobyl aftermath committee told BelTA, the exhibition will showcase around 60 photos. The exhibition is supposed to remind the world one more time about the nuclear danger, attract attention of the international community to the Chernobyl problem in order to increase relief aid to the affected areas.
The exhibition is initiated by the Chernobyl Children Fund of Japan. For many years the fund has been fruitfully cooperating with Belarus for recreation of children, who live in radiation-polluted areas and treatment of children thyroid cancer. The proposal to arrange the exhibition was voiced during the last visit of the Japanese fund representatives to Belarus.
The press service noted, Hirokawa Ryuichi is one of the most famous Japanese photo masters. He always went to flash points, took photos of the war in Lebanon and clashes in Beirut, and made reports about emergencies at nuclear plants on Three Mile Island and in Chernobyl. He made and published over 40 books and photo albums, arranged over 700 exhibitions dedicated to Chernobyl and the Middle East, made around 30 TV broadcasts about nuclear catastrophes. The talented photographer sympathises with the suffering people and tries to aid them by working at various children funds and charity organisations.
For his creativity Hirokawa Ryuichi has been awarded many prizes, including one Frantsisk Skorina medal.
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