Yoshikatsu Fujii, a third-generation atomic bomb survivor born and raised in Hiroshima. Yoshikatsu Fujii is a photo-based visual storyteller working on long-form projects about memory, family, contemporary events, and history. His main medium is a hand-made limited edition photobook.

Yoshikatsu Fujii’s book “red string” based about the divorce of his parents. There is a japanese theory that when someone’s born, there is a red thread that is tied to them, an invisible red thread that connects two people that are destined to meet and be connected in their lives regardless of place, time, or circumstances. This red string may stretch or tangle, but never break however for Yoshikatsu Fujii’s parents they weren’t connected by red thread or it came undone.

red string interview with Yoshikatsu Fujii: