Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa by Mao Ishikawa
Release date: October 2022
Published by Session Press 
Distributed in North America by Dashwood Books
First edition, second printing
Softcover, 112 pages
Dimensions: 9.5 x 13 inches

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ISBN 978-0-692-81744-5
Dashwood Books Item #23654

Session Press’ Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa, published in 2017, was the first US monograph by Okinawan photographer Mao Ishikawa, a highly revered figure in Japan. The release of the second printing in October of this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Okinawa’s reversion to Japan in 1972 since its’ occupation by the US after World War II.

Red Flower celebrates the courageous and honest lives of women she met and befriended while working at bars in Koza and Kin that were hang-outs for black soldiers from the local US military bases in Okinawa. The book features several unpublished photographs from artist's first book, ”Hot Days in Camp Hansen" published in 1982. Red Flower is the seminal work of Ishikawa, marking the starting point of her subsequently long career as a photographer. Designed with full-bleed images reproduced in a large format with intense b/w printing which successfully conveys the original lively spirit and tension of Ishikawa’s Camp Hansen work, available once again for wider public appreciation with an essay by the artist.

Photography by Mao Ishikawa
Text by Mao Ishikawa
Designed by Alex Lin, Studio Lin
Printing by Die Keure, BE






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