Polish photographer Arkadiusz Podniesinski went to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster last month to see it with his own eyes. What he found was how nature took over the area after people left following the devastating March 2011 earthquake.
The scenes he captured are reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic film.
Images reveal row the Fukushima Exclusion Zone was swallowed by nature ➤ http://t.co/ynIEqXycoZ pic.twitter.com/7tAsT3Rfqi
— Darryl Lombard (@TourismPlan) October 13, 2015
Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal How The Fukushima Exclusion Zone Was Swallowed By Nature http://t.co/zJb84xjTl8 pic.twitter.com/dVYPGUREkr
— Stonexman™ (@stonexman) October 12, 2015
#Fukushima pref. Arek #Podniesiński: Residential building with view over #radioactive soil http://t.co/uqlHlt4tmN pic.twitter.com/dQfv9iUnw9
— Reinhard Uhrig (@reinharduhrig) October 12, 2015
“It is not earthquakes or tsunami that are to blame for the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, but humans,” Podniesinski wrote on his website.
http://t.co/Ars4WnOqN2 the best urbex report I have ever seen. Truly amazing that he got to Fukushima pic.twitter.com/CRfKLrTrE2
— dsukphotography (@daveyslife) October 3, 2015
Naoto Matsumura – the man who returned to radioactive #Fukushima to care for his animals http://t.co/s6mRDVnyyx pic.twitter.com/KMlc3vNT5Z
— Ethical Superstore (@ethicalstore) September 30, 2015
“I came to Fukushima as a photographer and a filmmaker, trying above all to put together a story using pictures. I was convinced that seeing the effects of the disaster with my own eyes would mean I could assess the effects of the power station failure and understand the scale of the tragedy, especially the tragedy of the evacuated residents, in a better way,” he added.
FUKUSHIMA http://t.co/CsqksG6vdm pic.twitter.com/aBq29AF9kY
— Santiago Borrazás (@sanbor) September 25, 2015
“This was a way of drawing my own conclusions without being influenced by any media sensation, government propaganda, or nuclear lobbyists who are trying to play down the effects of the disaster, and pass on the information obtained to as wider a public as possible.”
