Kosuke Okahara’s Photos of Fukushima’s Aftermath

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Fragments of Fukushima

Eighteen months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the photographer Kosuke Okahara has created a collection of haunting images of a land irreparably altered and the people who stayed behind.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/fragments-of-fukushima/

Okahara has traveled to Fukushima Prefecture almost every month. On Sept. 6, at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in France, Getty Images awarded him $20,000 to support his investigation of the fallout from the nuclear accident, and of those who suffered most