The 3/11 Project: Photographs from Japan, Helping Japan

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The 3/11 Tsunami Photo Project is a new app featuring the work of fourteen photographers who documented the tragic aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The .99 app, published by Kodansha, is an innovative fundraiser as well – all proceeds from the project go to the Japanese Red Cross Society.

Seven photographers – TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr, James Whitlow Delano, Jean Chung, Adam Dean, Keith Bedford, Paula Bronstein and Shiho Fukada – donated their work to the project, curated by Yumi Goto.

Images from seven more photographers, including David Guttenfelder, Pieter Ten Hoopen, Jake Price, Giulio Di Sturco, Ko Sasaki, Guillem Valle and Ryo Kameyama, were added to the app in an update released in late April.

In addition to biographies of the contributors, there is a brief audio message to the people of Japan from each photographer. James Whitlow Delano, who is based in Tokyo, said, “I saw order where there was chaos, but most of all I saw hope.”

An elderly woman shuffles through the destroyed city of Rikuzen-Takata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. In Rikuzen-Takata, 10,547 residents, nearly half the population of roughly 26,000 people, are living in evacuation shelters. Japan Self Defence Forces say they have found 300 to 400 bodies there. About 5,000 of the city's houses were submerged by the quake-triggered tsunami.James Whitlow Delano
A ship sits amid the debris of the tsunami that hit Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture following the massive earthquake that struck Japan. James Whitlow Delano
Japanese vehicles pass through the ruins of the leveled city of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan, March 15, 2011.David Guttenfelder—AP
Tayo Kitamura, 40, kneels in the street to caress and talk to the wrapped body of her mother Kuniko Kitamura, 69, after Japanese firemen discovered the dead woman inside the ruins of her home in Onagawa, northeastern Japan Saturday, March 19, 2011. David Guttenfelder—AP
A Japanese funeral parlor worker shovels dirt on to coffins containing victims of the march 11 earthquake and tsunami during a mass funeral in Yamamoto, northeastern Japan Saturday, March 26, 2011. David Guttenfelder—AP
Elderly Japanese survivors take refuge inside a makeshift shelter at a school gymnasium after their homes were destroyed in Natori, Japan.Dominic Nahr—Magnum
Locals clean up the area around Misawa, a local fishing port in northeastern Japan.Dominic Nahr—Magnum
The devastated landscape in northeastern Japan.Jake Price
Two bodies are left covered by blankets near the rubble of Rikuzenmaeda, Iwate prefecture, Japan, March 15, 2011.Shiho Fukada
The tsunami completely destroyed the city of Otsuchi, Japan.Jean Chung
Chinese nationals queue to be evacuated from Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, March 16, 2011.Adam Dean
Momoko Onodera prays as she talks about her husband who died in the tsunami at an evacuation center March 18, 2011 in Kesennuma, Japan.Paula Bronstein—Getty Images
Monks pray in front of a mass grave in the city of Higashi-Matsushima, Japan. Pieter Ten Hoopen
The city of Yamada after the tsunami.Pieter Ten Hoopen
Cherry blossoms near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Ko Sasaki

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