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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.

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.