Blue Persimmons

This project shows the destroyed, divided living and land of Fukushima, and captures the damage of radiation with the society that tolerates it. In 2011, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant exploded and scattered the radioactive material around this land. Knowing the beautiful Fukushima land, I have recorded the landscape to visualize the loss of the hometown and the damage caused by the invisible radiation. In Japan, humans and land are closely related, but they were completely destroyed here. Three years after the disaster, I moved to Fukushima. By having been photographing Fukushima as one of the local inhabitants, I became aware of the absurdity existing here. In Fukushima, there was a division not only physically but also mentally. A borderline was drawn at the border of the evacuation zone, and the difference in the position turned a friend into a distracting person. Anxiety was always attached to the minds of those who appeared to be living a normal life. That was the biggest invisible damage. The relationship between land and others can not be restored. Anxiety in my heart has never been removed. Nobody will know what is right, but they still live here.