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Photographing the Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima
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Photographing the Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima

2012 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Photographer Donald Weber travels into the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, camera in hand, to document what remains after the 2011 meltdown. The film follows him through empty towns and abandoned farms inside the buffer zone, places where residents left in a hurry and never came back, and watches him work: framing shots, discussing exposure and distance, and talking through why he chooses to photograph radioactive ruins rather than the more familiar images of the tsunami's wreckage. Interviews with Weber give the viewer his reasoning for approaching disaster through still photography rather than news footage, and the camera lingers on the eerie stillness of houses, streets, and fields left exactly as they were on the day people evacuated. It is a short, quiet piece about the ethics and mechanics of bearing witness with a camera in a place still too dangerous to live in, more concerned with how an image gets made than with delivering a full accounting of the disaster itself.