The 3/11 Project: Photographs from Japan, Helping Japan
The 3/11 Project: Photographs from Japan, Helping Japan
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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
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.
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 DelanoA ship sits amid the debris of the tsunami that hit Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture following the massive earthquake that struck Japan. James Whitlow DelanoJapanese vehicles pass through the ruins of the leveled city of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan, March 15, 2011.David Guttenfelder—APTayo 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—APA 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—APElderly Japanese survivors take refuge inside a makeshift shelter at a school gymnasium after their homes were destroyed in Natori, Japan.Dominic Nahr—MagnumLocals clean up the area around Misawa, a local fishing port in northeastern Japan.Dominic Nahr—MagnumThe devastated landscape in northeastern Japan.Jake PriceTwo 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 ChungChinese nationals queue to be evacuated from Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, March 16, 2011.Adam DeanMomoko 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 ImagesMonks pray in front of a mass grave in the city of Higashi-Matsushima, Japan. Pieter Ten HoopenThe city of Yamada after the tsunami.Pieter Ten HoopenCherry blossoms near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Ko Sasaki
