雨のなかで畑の世話をするランドアーミー、いわゆるビアフラの農耕兵士。農村出身者は雨期にむけて駆り出され、ジャングルを開墾して畑にし、食糧自給態勢をつくる

Members of the Land Army, the farmer soldiers of Biafra, tending fields in the rain. People from farming villages were recruited for the rainy season to cultivate fields in the jungle to create a system of food self-sufficiency 雨のなかで畑の世話をするランドアーミー、いわゆるビアフラの農耕兵士。農村出身者は雨期にむけて駆り出され、ジャングルを開墾して畑にし、食糧自給態勢をつくる

OKAMURA Akihiko 岡村昭彦

Collection of: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Title: Members of the Land Army, the farmer soldiers of Biafra, tending fields in the rain. People from farming villages were recruited for the rainy season to cultivate fields in the jungle to create a system of food self-sufficiency
Original title: 雨のなかで畑の世話をするランドアーミー、いわゆるビアフラの農耕兵士。農村出身者は雨期にむけて駆り出され、ジャングルを開墾して畑にし、食糧自給態勢をつくる
Artist Name: OKAMURA Akihiko
Year: 1969
Material / Technique: Chromogenic print
Dimensions: 250x370mm
Accession number: 10112798
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum “Search the Collection”: https://collection.topmuseum.jp/Publish/detailPage/40189/

Metadata

About the creator

岡村昭彦 / OKAMURA Akihiko

from Art Platform Japan: https://artplatform.go.jp/resources/collections/artists/A1186

Date of birth: 1929-01-01
Birth place: Tokyo
Date of death: 1985-03-24
Medium: Photography
Gender: male
Update date: 2025-11-17

Identifiers

APJ ID: A1186
VIAF ID: 65551700
NDL ID: 00059874
ULAN ID: 500667333
AOW ID: _b074e847-9e94-41cc-9adb-57f7a086b5bc
Wikidata ID: Q4700919

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