Ainoko , a photobook to return to childhood

May 16, 2022 • Tania Neira Uejo

Ainoko. The bad word is a photobook with which I return to the years of my childhood, in the eighties, through images. In my childhood, the word “ainoko” haunted me like a ghost. “Ainoko” was a word that referred to mestizos like me, to the children of the union of Japanese descendants with people from other cultures. Ainoko . The bad word is the sum of photos from the family album and texts about the fears of a “ girl …