Mao Ishikawa - Red Flower (First edition, Second printing) design and Francis Ford Coppola

and Francis Ford Coppola

flax and wood

using portraiture to celebrate the artists

brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes

Mao Ishikawa - Red Flower (First edition, Second printing) design and Francis Ford CoppolaSession 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 Okinawas 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