Kei Ito with Center for Fine Art Photography

Ito, a third-generation atomic bomb victim - hibakusha, reprocessed the footage from tests done on American soil as thousands of separate photograms, using sunlight to remake each frame before re-compiling them into video. In this installation, the videos are played in reverse, the explosions shrinking instead of expanding. Houses, school buses, and mannequins are reconstructed before our eyes while time counts down to a period before nuclear weapons and their extreme proliferation across the globe.

Curated by Hamidah Glasgow, Executive Director and Curator with the Center for Fine Art Photography