{"id":1558,"date":"2015-11-02T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2019-09-11T12:37:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:37:42","slug":"in-the-news-a-101-year-old-photo-journalist-still-shooting-at-the-age-of-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2015\/11\/02\/in-the-news-a-101-year-old-photo-journalist-still-shooting-at-the-age-of-101\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: A 101 Year-old  Photo-Journalist Still Shooting At The Age Of 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we turn our attention to the 2015-2016 Images of Aging photo contest, let&#8217;s remember <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V-z5jD15oOI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tsuneko Sasamoto<\/a>. Sasamoto is Japan&#8217;s first woman photo-journalist. She began her career in 1940.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2014\/05\/08\/national\/pioneer-photojournalist-blazed-trails-women\/#.ViUGXStqqW4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sasamoto<\/a> was born in 1914, the daughter of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2014\/05\/08\/national\/pioneer-photojournalist-blazed-trails-women\/#.ViUGXStqqW4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kimono dealer<\/a>.<br \/>\nHer photography reflects onsite images from Hiroshima, Antarctica, and topics such as suffrage and world-wide old age.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spoon-tamago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tsuneko-sasamoto-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tsuneko Sasamoto\" width=\"657\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/first-woman-photojournalist-japan-tsuneko-sasamoto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> three jewels of advice from Sasamoto<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h3>1. \u201cIt\u2019s essential to remain positive about your life and never give up&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>2. \u201cYou should never become lazy\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>3. \u201cYou need to push yourself and stay aware, so you can move forward\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spoon-tamago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tsuneko-sasamoto-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we turn our attention to the 2015-2016 Images of Aging photo contest, let&#8217;s remember Tsuneko Sasamoto. Sasamoto is Japan&#8217;s first woman photo-journalist. She began her career in 1940. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[200980],"tags":[86832,125145,161995,161650,86823,161651,161652,125128],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-resources","tag-charlie-pruett","tag-images-of-aging","tag-older-adult-ministry-2","tag-pgc","tag-pruett-gerontology-center","tag-retiree-ministry","tag-senior-adult-ministry","tag-tsuneko-sasamoto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001462,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1001462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}