Greetings to the family of photographers of the Pope “The Boy Standing in the Grill”

Pope greets the family of the photographer "boy standing in the grill" November 24, 12:31

The Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church gave a speech at the hypocenter in Nagasaki City, followed by Joe, a US military photographer who took a picture of a boy standing in a burning place in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb was dropped.・ Conversed with Mr. Odanell's son.

With the boy who stands in the grill

"The boy standing in the grill" is a photograph that Joe Odanell, a US military photographer, took in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb was dropped.

This photo shows a boy of about 10 years old who is standing upright and standing straight in front of her, holding her little girl with her eyes closed on her back.

Mr. Odanell said that he was a copy of a boy who carried his brother who had already died, and that the younger brother was cremated outdoors while the boy stared.

The film that Mr. Odanel traveled around Japan, such as Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and photographed with his private camera, was kept in the trunk with miserable memories after returning to the United States.

However, Mr. Odanell decided to face the past, opened a trunk in 1989, more than 40 years after returning to Japan, and in 1990, held a photo exhibition appealing the misery of the atomic bomb in the local Tennessee state.

Despite the backlash in the United States, photo exhibitions were also held in various parts of Japan, and in 2007 and 2007, “The Boy Standing in the Yakiba” was specially exhibited at the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in Nagasaki City.

The “boy on the grill” donated to Nagasaki City is still on display at the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki City and continues to appeal to the misery of the war. Then, at the end of 2017, Pope Francis drew attention as he instructed this photo to be distributed to church officials with his signature and the message "what the war brings". .

On the back of the card, along with the Pope's message, the explanation was added: “This boy bites his lips so that his blood bleeds, and he shows an unfaithful sadness”.

On the other hand, Mr. Odanel also came to Japan and searched for the whereabouts of the boy in Nagasaki City, and also continued to investigate the photo materials research group of the Nagasaki Peace Promotion Association, etc., who was photographed who was this boy The location is not specific.

Photographer's son “I am proud”

Mr. Taig Odanel, son of Joe O'Donnell, who took a picture of "The Boy Standing at the Grill" said, "Thank you. I am proud that the picture of “The Boy Standing in the Grill” taken by his father was raised at the hypocenter today. I think that it was the moment when I thought, “I must not repeat the miserable experience.”