Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge

Background Research

Hiroshima: Built-Upness and Fire Protection Map

"Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest of the Society of Jesus, reclined in his underwear on a cot on the top floor of his order's three-storey mission house, reading a Jesuit magazine, Stimmen der Zeit"

Hiroshima: Post-Atomic Bomb

Hiroshima: Pre-Atomic Bomb

Hiroshima: Extent of Fire and Exposure Distances Map

Timeline

To highlight the absurdity of war through Kleinsorge's sense of humor, objects and circumstances the Jesuit priest encounters are depicted as inverted images.

Process Images

Woman and Child

Interior of Destroyed House

Destroyed House

Mangled Power lines

Street Cars

Inside the Hospital

Bomb Explosion

Kimono

Devastated Landscape

Hiroshima: Pre-Atomic Bomb

Hiroshima Before the Bomb

Vegetable Garden

Twisted Stairs

One Single Weather Plane

Moon Bridge in Asano Park

Rock Garden

A White Flash