Fukushima, the town where the nuclear plants basically imploded and leaked like crazy, was abandoned, perhaps never to be resettled. Or if it is, not for awhile.
People who lived there sometimes return for brief visits, but they have to try to move on with their lives the best they can.
Photojournalists Guillaume Bression and Carlos Ayesta have been periodically going to the Fukushima disaster zone to document the deteriorating, abandoned ruins.
In their latest release of photos, called "Retrace Our Steps," people who had fled returned to once familiar surroundings and posed as if they were doing what they would normally do before the disaster hit. The photographers asked their subjects to act as normally as possible, and at least pretend to do what they would do if things were normal.
The photos in this post are examples of Ayesta and Bression's work. Click this link for more.
Reports Featureshoot.com:
"Ayesta and Bression asked that they sit how they would have years earlier, before the catastrophe, when daily life lumbered on as usual. It was a process, says Ayesta, of 'reconstituting normal life in chaos,' a 'life that will never be the same as before.'"
Earlier, they photographed vegetation taking over everything in the post-apocalyptic landscape.
The photographs are haunting and terribly sad. There's something about images depicting normal life interrupted, destroyed and abandoned that send shivers down my spine.
H/T to Bored Panda for this.
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