Photohoku is a family photo and family photo album building project for those in need. It was started in response to the March 11, 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami disaster in Japan. The entirety of Japan was rattled after that earthquake and it felt like everybody wanted to rally to help to do something, including us, us being me, Brian Scott Peterson, and my homie/agent, Yuko Yoshikawa. Both of us with budding families and very little ones, made it hard to physically go to the devastated regions, so we worked both separately and together in Tokyo on a handful of photography related projects, like a charity shoot, an auction, a book, trying to raise money for Tohoku. Those first efforts, while successful, ran out of steam quickly. Yuko basically got frustrated that it wasn’t really directly effective enough, and recruited me to go up there with her to do what we do professionally together in Tokyo, which is making family portraits. It was obvious to us that if people lost everything in the tsunami, it likely included their family histories in photos, and that was something we understood and could help with.
- https://partner.archive-it.org/1131/collections/7472/seeds/2315109
- https://partner.archive-it.org/1131/collections/7472/crawl/1184393/seeds
- https://partner.archive-it.org/1131/collections/7472/crawl/1231063/seeds
- https://partner.archive-it.org/1131/collections/7472/crawl/1233935
Photohoku is a family photo and family photo album building project for those in need. It was started in response to the March 11, 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami disaster in Japan. The entirety of Japan was rattled after that earthquake and it felt like everybody wanted to rally to help to do something, including us, us being me, Brian Scott Peterson, and my homie/agent, Yuko Yoshikawa. Both of us with budding families and very little ones, made it hard to physically go to the devastated regions, so we worked both separately and together in Tokyo on a handful of photography related projects, like a charity shoot, an auction, a book, trying to raise money for Tohoku. Those first efforts, while successful, ran out of steam quickly. Yuko basically got frustrated that it wasn’t really directly effective enough, and recruited me to go up there with her to do what we do professionally together in Tokyo, which is making family portraits. It was obvious to us that if people lost everything in the tsunami, it likely included their family histories in photos, and that was something we understood and could help with.