Kazuma Obara

Reset. Beyond Fukushima

Will the Nuclear Catastrophe Bring Humanity to Its Senses?

Ever since the first days following the disastrous events that took place in Japan in March 2011, photojournalist Kazuma Obara has been visiting the sites and the people affected. He even visited the Fukushima power plant itself, where he talked to the workers involved. The series of portraits and interviews he produced is published for the first time in this publication.

Obara’s photographs offer touching insights about the consequences of the events surrounding Fukushima. Recollected in this book, they offer a long-term perspective and pose the question of responsibility. They bring to mind just how farreaching the consequences of this catastrophe are, for the people on site as well as worldwide. This book offers a view that goes beyond the pure facts on site—Beyond Fukushima.

Ever since the first days following the disastrous events that took place in Japan in March 2011, photojournalist Kazuma Obara has been visiting the sites and the people affected. He even visited the Fukushima power plant itself, where he talked to the workers involved. The series of portraits and interviews he produced is published for the first time in this publication.

Obara’s photographs offer touching insights about the consequences of the events surrounding Fukushima. Recollected in this book, they offer a long-term perspective and pose the question of responsibility. They bring to mind just how farreaching the consequences of this catastrophe are, for the people on site as well as worldwide. This book offers a view that goes beyond the pure facts on site—Beyond Fukushima.

Author(s): Kazuma Obara

Edited by Adriano A. Biondo, Lars Müller

With photographs by Kazuma Obara

Design: Integral Lars Müller

23 x 29,7 cm, 9 x 11 ¾ in

216 pages, 130 illustrations

paperback

2012, 978-3-03778-292-7, English
Japanese
CHF 35.00

Kazuma Obara

Kazuma Obara, born in Iwate in 1985, Japan, is a photojournalist. He studied social sciences at Utsunomiya University and continued his studies at Days Japan Photo Journalism School. Three days after the earthquake disaster, he began documenting what was happening in the affected areas. His photographs from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant have been published all over Europe.