Fukushima Ongoing: More Tragicomic Images As Contaminated Water Crisis Looms
I'm not sure what's more terrifying. Is it TEPCO's latest crisis, or the relative lack of international attention, urgency ... and explanatory imagery?
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The Japan Quake Anniversary and the "Ownership" of Commemoration
Looking at the photos from the second anniversary of the Japanese quake and tsunami yesterday, I couldn't help think about the visual politics of commemoration.
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Fukushima +1
Marking the one year anniversary of the tsunami and Fukushima meltdown, this photo is like the cousin of a very early one presaging the ongoing radiation threat on Japan's next generation.
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Guttenfelder's Fukushima: Contemplating a Future Without Us
What's so powerful about Guttenfelder's nuke disaster photos is how "silent" and humbling they are, framing the disaster as an "ego check" and portentous of a future without us.
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Fukushima's Radiant Media Junket
Given Tepco and Japan's efforts to tightly contain this story, it's hard for me to look past the metaphor here of journalists, bottled up to fend off the microsieverts, being taken for a ride.
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Fukushima: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Except…
The other thing you can't see here, though it's there, is the plant in the distance.
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Jake Price in Japan: Five Months On
Jake Price returns to the earthquake and tsunami devastated zone in Japan, where cultural celebration renews life alongside mountains of debris and for some -- bleak prospects for the future.
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Japan's Nuke Plant "Amusement" Centers: Hello Kitty Meets Alice in Wonderland
Things have come a long way since Reddy Kilowatt.
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Mario Tama: Spicy Tuna, Giant Clam and Radiation Roll
This photo from a N.Y. sushi restaurant takes on a different sense given that the ocean off Japan will likely soon up its glow, and those domestic nuke plants we've been rock-bottom assured are bulletproof might not be.
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TEPCO: Fukushima Workers In The Pink. (Oh, Sure.)
I'm really don't get the deafness of TEPCO's visual PR.
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Nuclear Bunnies?
Whether the bunny is a Fukushima mutation or not is not really the issue.
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Fukushima Goo: The Latest From TEPCO
The latest video from TEPCO chronicles the green goo counter-offensive.
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TEPCO Mega-Float: Radiation Takes a Cruise
The fact that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had to state that the plan wasn't an April Fool's joke is telling.
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TEPCO's Final Solution
It’s not clear what the public’s reaction will be to Japan’s "final solution," but besides devastating animal activist and lovers worldwide, it will fulfill the aim of not just eliminating the irradiated animals, but also the problem of the photos.
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Unit 4 in Danger of Collapse? (And Then, Don't Tell Me There's Nothing To See at Fukushima)
It is often noted that the story remains invisible because radiation is invisible, and that the photos and video being released by TEPCO are overly technical, as well. Well, I'm not buying it.
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The Gurney
There but not there. This photo seems to capture the ambiguous media status of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima.
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We're Sorry
Apparently, corporate responsibility has a strikingly different face to it in Japan than it does in America.
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Fukushima: Terror Turning Just a Little Robotic
Robots are cool. Robot pictures are about the future, and science, and the application of advanced technological capability and know-how. And generally, robot pictures are fun.
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