
Blue Persimmons
- Publisher
- Akaaka Art Publishing
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 978-4-86541-181-2
- Specifications
- Hardcover
217 x 276 mm
230 pages
Book design by Shoichi Onishi
A decade of photographs made in Fukushima after the nuclear accident of March 2011, by a former newspaper photographer who moved to the prefecture three years later. Visiting a contaminated village for the first time, Yuki Iwanami saw nothing at all and felt a dread precisely because nothing was visible: radiation, the divisions it causes among people and the damage to the heart cannot be photographed directly. Landscapes and portraits, a deep fog that seems to cover something and white snow that keeps falling like radiation, try to make the invisible visible and to show the relationship between land and people, and life itself. In Fukushima the land is still there and people keep on living, and for the photographer continuing to photograph is the same as continuing to live.