Smith Minamata News Today

"Life" Magazine photographer-photojournalist W. Eugene Smith and his Japanese wife Aileen talk with photo magazine editor James Hughes and writer William Pierce and show many of the famous pictures Smith took which established the scandal in Minamata, Japan. Fish poisoning caused by chemical dumping by the Chiso Factory caused mysterious diseases, birth deformities, and serious physiological defects in large numbers of villagers who lived by the sea and ate the fish. Chiso and the Japa...

Page was one of the last surviving members of the generation of courageous photographers who exposed the bloody reality of the US-led imperialist invasion of Vietnam.

Last week director, producer, painter and sculptor Andrew Levitas spoke with the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> about his dramatic feature <em>Minamata</em>, featuring Johnny Depp as world-famous photographer W. Eugene Smith.

“An actor’s personal life is one thing but the film is something different. Why should someone’s personal life be used to censor Minamata?”