After the "There is Always a Machine Between Us" exhibit at SF Camerawork, a non-profit artists' photography organization, I added myself to the mailing list for opportunities like the one I just signed up for: a three-hour volunteer shift to help assemble a full-scale replica of a Kaiten, a one-man submarine exclusively designed for suicide missions by the Japanese in World War II. This replica will consist entirely of taped-together photographs; the artist, Katsushige Nakahashi, photographed the surface of a toy model taking on average 27 photographs for every square centimeter.
Volunteers will tape the photographs together to construct the full-scale replica. This project, named "Zero Project Kaiten" took place in Japan in 2006. Nakahashi's Zero Projects pertain to his father's experiences in the war.
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