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Goro Nakamura
GORO NAKAMURA is a photo journalist in Japan. He has been covered the Vietnam War and
its tragedy of Agent Orange. He was born in 1940, and he has been a Professor of the faculty of
Regional Study of the Gifu University where he taught media theory and photojournalism for
several years until his retirement in 2004. Since 1974 Nakamura has written five books on
the topic that has each sold anywhere from 7,000 to 270,000 copies. He was nominated for
the last ten finalists of Eugene Smith Award in 1983, and received the 8th Ina Nobuo Prize in
1983 from Nikon for the best photographer of the year, as well as a special prize from the
Japan Congress of Journalists in 1995. Nikon hosted his exhibition “30 Years Tracing of
Agent Orange” held at their gallery in Ginza, Tokyo and Osaka Nikon in 2005. He was awarded
the 1st Scientific Technical Journalist Prize in 2005 for his work of the photo-reportage
concerning to the Agent Orange. His photographs are exhibited at president’s gallery of
the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York (CUNY) in 2006 to 2007. He is now
teaching photography and journalism at the Institute of Modern Photography as a Vice Director
of the Institute
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"Shiten" Grand-Prix, Japan Realistic Photographers Society
"The Prize of the Year to encourage", Japan Congress of Journalists, for the documentary of the Vietnam War
"The Prize of the Year to encourage", Japan Congress of Jpurnalists, for the reportage of Cambodge
"8th Ina Nobuo Prize", NIKON, Best of the year award, for the photo exhibition "Agent Orange"
Nominated to the "Eugene Smith Award 1983", USA, in the last ten finalists
"Special Prize of the Year", Japan Congress of Journalists
"JASTJ 1st Prize", Japan Association of Science and Technology Journalist, for the thirty years covering of the Agent Orange Question
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“The end of the Vietnam War” NIKON Gallery, Shinjuku, Tokyo
“Agent Orange” NIKON Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
“AGENT ORANGE – Evidence of a horrendous mistake” Feb. to March, Houston Center for Photography, Texas, as joint exhibition of 4 photographers, Phillip Jones Griffiths, Wendy Watriss, Mike Goldwater and Goro Nakamura
“Spectrum of Indochina” Shinjuku NIKON Gallery, Tokyo
“Tragedy of Agent Orange” Seoul, Korea
“Vietnam in brand” KONICA Plaza, Tokyo, Osaka and Sapporo
“Agent Orange in the War” Ritsumei-kan University, Kyot
“Hundreds of Misfortune in the Environment” Itabashi- Ward, Tokyo
“Hundreds of Misfortune in the Environment” Mirai-Kaikan, Gifu city
“Thirty years after the Vietnam War” Gifu, Japan
“Thirty years tracing of Agent Orange” NIKON Gallery Ginza Tokyo and Osaka
“Silent Spring – Agent Orange” October 3 to 29, Third floor Gallery of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) in New York
“ORANGE” 3rd February to 16th June, President’s Gallery of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York
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EVENT digest
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Tokyo Geijutsu-za (Performing arts group) gives a public performance of
Goro Nakamura's original
Non-fiction “My Mother was Sprayed with Agent Orange” 19th to 26th Aug. in Tokyo.
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Click this picture to Tokyo Geijutsu-za's Website!
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