Nick Diprose
Michael
My father arrived in Hiroshima during cherry blossom season, in the aftermath of war and the atomic bomb as an eighteen year old signalman. During his brief service in Japan, he had a fleeting friendship with a local girl called Setsuko. He never spoke of his time in Hiroshima, what he saw or his clandestine relationship, but left behind a box of ephemera including letters from Setsuko. On the back of one she wrote his name in pencil in Japanese katakana characters: ‘Michael’. Through use of archive material and images of cherry blossom, my work imagines the emotions felt between two teenagers in war’s traumatic aftermath, the transience of life’s encounters and a lifetime of longing to be together again.
Kate Amos • Neil Barclay • Geoffrey Bird • George Bull • Natasha Cheek • Joe Costigan • Georgia De la Bertauche-Bull • Will Dickson • Nick Diprose • Felicity Handford • Catherine Hawthorn • Stephen Hewett • Nina Kostamo Deschamps • Robert Leech • Mirjam Lorek • Rachel Manley • Keith Mason • George Netana • Sarah Padilha • Natalie Persoglio • Ruthie Philip-Smith • Phil Roeder • Richard Tippett • Sarah Young •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Falmouth University
MA Photography
Glasgow School of Art
Masters of Design in Photography
University of Portsmouth
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Royal College of Art
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Ulster University
MFA Photography