Shocking Aftermath: Nature Recovers following the disaster of Fukushima

Hunting at photographs of roads entirely eaten by vines and filled destroyed shops with waste and cobwebs, it is easy, their tragedy by one with the set of Post downplay -apocalyptic film. All these pictures of Fukushima, Japan, adopted 4 years after the earthquake and tsunami that brought on it to the nearby nuclear energy plant melts seem to be almost also shocking true. But they are, and Photographer Arkadiusz Podniesinski do not you neglect it. Within the exclusion zone, radioactive contamination, is a haunting ghost town with a sign of his abrupt departure everywhere you look scattered

If this all sounds reminiscent of yet another nuclear disaster, which is part of the point Podniesinski photo series. The photographer has Chernobyl in the previous seven years have a quantity of instances, the documentation of its deterioration and subsequent reclamation by nature in the hope that he could assist you keep in mind the planet that it occur to human error, the lead to of these events, holding ,

"It really is not an earthquake or tsunami, which are to blame for the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, but folks. The production of the Japanese parliamentary committee investigating the disaster report leaves no doubt. The disaster foresee and can be prevented. As in the case of Chernobyl there was a man, not the technologies, which was mostly accountable for the disaster "

" I came to Fukushima as a photographer and a filmmaker, attempting specially to share a story with images. I was convinced that to see the effects of the disaster with my personal eyes would imply I could assess the influence of the power plant failure and to realize the extent of the tragedy, specially the tragedy of the evacuated residents, in a better way. That was a way of drawing their own conclusions with no becoming influenced by any media sensation, government propaganda, or nuclear lobbyists who try to downplay the effect of the disaster, and pass on the public as wide as possible for information. "

See dozens far more amazing images and read the accompanying story Podniesinski journey by way of the Fukushima exclusion zone on the site of the photographer.

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