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Tag: Kosuke Okahara
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Kosuke Okahara’s Photos of Fukushima’s Aftermath
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
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Getty Awards $80,000 to Four Photojournalists at Perpignan
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/06/getty-awards-80000-to-four-photojournalists-at-perpignan/#1
On Thursday, Getty Images awarded $80,000 in grants supporting the work of four international photojournalists. Bharat Choudhary, Kosuke Okahara, Paolo Marchetti and Sebastian Liste each received $20,000 prizes and editorial support as winners of the 2012 Getty Grants for Editorial Photography
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Pictures of Transnistria: An Unrecognized State Caught Between Past and Present
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Located between the Dniester River and the eastern border of Ukraine, Transnistria is an unrecognized state of approximately a half million people. Though it asserts itself as a sovereign nation, it is claimed by Moldova and has no diplomatic relations with any United Nations member state.
Visiting the small zone in January of 2011, photographer Kosuke Okahara wanted to see what “it feels like to live in a country that doesn’t exist, if the people are still very attached to the place where they live.” The winner of a 2010 W. Eugene Smith fellowship, Okahara has worked in places as diverse as Colombia, Egypt, Sudan and his native Japan (where he is currently based).
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Photographer #285: Kosuke Okahara
Photographer #285: Kosuke Okahara
Kosuke Okahara, 1980, Japan, is a photojournalist who has been covering stories around the world since 2003. He made a lot of photographs th…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/05/photographer-285-kosuke-okahara.html
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