UEHARA Saburo
上原三郎
Born: 17 February 1924 – Died: 7 April 1944
Particulars:
Saburo was born in Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. He was a single man working as a fisherman with Tamashirogumi & Co based in Macassar, Celebes in the Dutch East Indies, now Sulawesi in Indonesia, when the Pacific War broke out. He was taken to South Australia and interned at Loveday Internment Camp. Later that year, he was taken to hospital and died of tuberculosis related acute nephritis a year and a half later. He was 20. His grave is in the Japanese Cemetery in Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
–Mayu Kanamori
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Eliott June
Artist/s Statement:
A young man, taken from his life so early – I wanted to reflect some of that in my work for him. I hung his name out in the wind and photographed it as it moved and flowed, as a fish’s tail or a flag. I took those images, composed and edited them.
Artist Bio:
Eliott June is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in Canberra, Australia. Eliott’s work often revolves around expressionism, life’s slices, and queerness.