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Silent Witnesses: Landscapes as Archives of Fukushima (2011–2026)

Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2013 Coastal view of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, two years after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster.

Silent Witnesses: Landscapes as Archives of Fukushima (2011–2026)

Takeshi YamamotobyTakeshi Yamamoto
17 de February de 2026
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Selected in Prêmio Portfólio FotoDoc 2026

Fukushima, observing how infrastructures, decisions, and economic systems quietly persist and transform beyond the moment of disaster.

Rather than focusing on spectacle, the work traces subtle continuities: abandoned schools, dormant stations, storage sites, new solar fields. These spaces function as archives, where memory, policy, and imagination intersect.

The project asks how a future is constructed in places once defined by rupture—and what remains when silence becomes the dominant narrative.

Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2013
A damaged clock recovered from debris in a tsunami-affected area two years after the 2011 disaster.
Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2014
An abandoned shopping street entrance sign reading “The Bright Future of Nuclear Power,” photographed in the evacuation zone.
Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2013
An elementary school classroom left abandoned within the evacuation zone.
Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2013
Tomioka Station platform overgrown with vegetation within the evacuation zone.
Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2013
A tractor left inside a farm shed within the evacuation zone.
Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2011
Milk discarded in a field following the nuclear accident.
Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2021
Flexible container bags filled with contaminated soil stored in a mountainous area following the 2011 nuclear accident.
Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2026
Utility-scale solar panels constructed on land affected by the 2011 nuclear disaster.
Yonomori Station area, Tomioka Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 2025.
A vacant lot where a residential neighborhood once stood before the 2011 nuclear

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Takeshi Yamamoto

Takeshi Yamamoto

Takeshi Yamamoto is a Japanese documentary photographer working on long-term projects that examine how landscapes hold memory, power, and continuity beyond moments of crisis. For over fifteen years, he has been documenting Fukushima, focusing not on the event itself but on the systems and structures that persist long after public attention fades. His practice bridges documentary and authorial approaches, exploring how time reorganizes space and how absence becomes a visible presence within the landscape.

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