Public Project
HIROSHIMA 2015
This first ever-used atomic bomb has killed over one hundred fifty thousand and at burst the whole city of Hiroshima within 3km became devastation. It is easy to recall the black and white image of the aftermath of Hiroshima immediately but as a Japanese photographer born in 1989, I wanted to update those symbolic viewpoints from the World War 2. By meeting the inhabitants and trying to give values to the banal landscapes. Thus making portraits of a cosmopolitan city that has more than one million inhabitants and which the modern architecture embody the will to rebuild from the devastation, without forgetting.
While covering the city, I took notes of the distance from the epicenter of the explosion at each spot where I took a photograph. My attempt was to imprint the historical facts in my own perspective.
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