In Rome, Ken Domon, Japan's master of realism, gets first overseas exhibition

The works of Ken Domon, an acclaimed photographer whose images of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bomb shocked 1950s Japan, took center stage in Rome at the end of last month with the opening of the first exhibition of his pictures outside his home country.

Domon, who died in 1990, is venerated in Japan as one of the country's greatest photographers and a pioneer of realism, but relatively unknown internationally.

Organisers of the collection on display at the Italian capital's Ara Pacis museum hope that will begin to change with an exhibition that runs until Sept 18.