Through A Distant Lens at the Griffin Theatre

By Benjamen Judd

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Should you be keen on taking in some culture during your stay here with us in sunny Sydney, check out the Griffin Theatre’s Yasukichi Murakami: Through A Distant Lens which is showing from February 10 until February 21.

Presented by Mayu Kanamori, Yasukichi Murakami: Through A Distant Lens tells the story of Murakami, a Japanese photographer, entrepreneur and inventor who was the talk of the town in Broome and Darwin in the early 1900s, until the outbreak of the Second World War saw him and his family, like all Japanese in Australia, interned as enemy aliens. Murakami’s photographs were subsequently impounded and subsequently lost.

Using photographic projections, video, original music and soundscape, Japanese-Australian photographer and writer Mayu Kanamori goes in search of Murakami’s lost photographs.

Uncovering a fascinating story of unlikely friendships, thwarted ambition and unrequited love,Yasukichi Murakami stirs our collective amnesia about the history of the Japanese in Australia.
Yasukichi Murakami is a meditation on love, truth and, in a digital age where cameras proliferate, the nature of photography.

Yasukichi Murakami: Through A Distant Lens at the Griffin Theatre will run from February 10 until February 21.