All the King's Horses and All The King's Men: More Fateful TEPCO Pics:
These are newly released photos from TEPCO documenting the moment just after and before the tsunami "attacked" the nuclear plant. (Yes, they describe it like that.)
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More Scenes from TEPCO: Behind the Lead Boards
I can imagine an expert saying a crisis like this involves a little bit of Rube Goldberg. On the other hand, the lead boards -- like the photo we looked at the other day of the worker pointing out the notorious crack -- leaves me anxious.
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Scenes from an Ongoing Meltdown
The visual irony from Fukushima just keep piling up.
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Amanda Rivkin in Hungary: Toxic Red Sludge
It's been six months since toxic red sludge from an aluminum plant in Hungary burst and flooded two surrounding villages. Photographer Amanda Rivkin delivers an update.
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Fukushima: That Which You Cannot Sea
With news this week of the sizable release of radioactive water into the sea, it seems the threat to these soldiers is everywhere.
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Those Snapshots from TEPCO
On top of TEPCO's track record since the Fukushima disaster began, it doesn't help their cause that a lot of their photos don't feel that "empirical."
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Illustration of the Week or Just Pretty Weak?
If the radiation story has been a terrifying and bewildering, the reporting has been pretty cut-and-dried.
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The Fukushima Glow
It's not my intention to make light. These scenes (grainy, emergency yellow and saturated like this) are just eerie.
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The Latest Fukushima Photo Bucking For Icon Status
At this point, it seems that people are both deeply connected to the story, but also do not want to face the reality/consequences of real live nuclear power plant accident.
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The “Fukushima 50”
I find the photos interesting in their anonymity -- consistent, I assume, with the way Japanese orient to the group as much as Americans obsesses over the individual, and look high and low, even more intensely since 9/11, for "the hero."
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Jake Price in Japan: Dispatch From The Quake Zone
Back in Sendai from the epicenter of the Japanese earthquake, photographer Jack Price captures the ordeal, and brave spirits, of survivors.
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Bahrain: Crushing the Pearl
Bahrain's leader's don't understand how much a public monument, especially a poetic one, is part of the emotional fabric of a city, its destruction only emphasizing its erasure and inviting every citizen to fill in the hole with a memory of the structure and the circumstances surrounding its...
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The Outright Sense of Normal in the Midst of Holy Hell
How a photo of the Japan tsunami plays with disaster -- and our sense of denial.
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Diane Sawyer Watches
This "behind the scenes" photo from the ABC News show somehow struck me.
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Tracking Radiation Levels in Tokyo: A Minorly Scary Photo
I guess the main issue, in this photo, and in Japan to this point, when it comes to radiation, is: what is the definition of "minorly."
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Japan Radioactivity: Is Visual Media Suppressing the Getaway?
With news photos flooding out of Japan as a result of the earthquake and tsunami, one question to ask is, what kinds of scenes aren’t being served? We’re seeing quite a few news photos (often very tight shots, typically one-on-one or two) of people being monitored for radiation exposure....
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Japan Fallout (Then and Now)
Even taken last Thursday, before the nuclear crisis started accelerating, I was shocked by these photos. I don't imagine the likeness to a mushroom cloud escaped the photographer's mind.
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