The upcoming exhibition “Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience”, opening on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, will be held at Wilmington College in Ohio from August 6 to December 5, 2025. The exhibition will then travel to Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, from January 15th to April 5th, 2026.
The exhibition features four artists whose work engages with memory, nuclear history, and intergenerational witness: Katy McCormick, Kei Ito, elin o’Hara slavick, and Migiwa Orimo.
A related panel discussion, “Archives as Witness: Memory and Art in Nuclear Histories”, will take place September 30th until October 1st at Wilmington College, home to the Peace Resource Center and the archive of Barbara Reynolds.
Three of the exhibiting artists, Ito, McCormick and slavick, are members of the Atomic Photographers Guild. Orimo’s work, which shares a strong affinity with the Guild’s mission, will also be featured in both the exhibition and panel.
(featured image) – Rope (tied around an A-Bombed Tree in Hiroshima, Japan), 2008, silver gelatin contact print of a rubbing, 20×24″ by elin o’Hara slavick