Public Project
Solemn Pines, Fading Things
Copyright Pengkuei Ben Huang 2025
Updated Sep 2025
Location Tohoku, Japan
Topics Documentary, Environment, Landscape, Loss, mass displacement, Ocean, Photography, Photojournalism
Solemn Pines | Fading Things is a series documenting towns along the coast of northeastern Japan in the aftermath of 2011 earthquake and tsunami. It recorded a period between 2012 and 2018 when the region was trying to overcome challenges amid the devastation caused by the disaster.
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