The destruction of Hiroshima overshadowed the next day's event – the first flight of the Nakajima Kikka ("Orange Blossom"), the Empire of Japan's first jet aircraft. It was developed so late in the war that it was also the combat aircraft's only flight before the conflict ended.
This might be a way of taking our spiritual temperature as the year begins: How am I contributing to the people in my household, my neighborhood, the Church?
In this exhibition of some ninety small black-and-white photographs by Yasuo Kuroda, the photographer utilized negative space as a defining compositional force.