We discovered the series by Carlos Ayesta and Guillaume Bression during the Weekend Portfolio selection. The work is currently on view at the festival Circulation(s) and they are among the winners of SFR Young Talents award. On this occasion, we decided to publish it again, with additional images.
There is a 1000 square miles no man’s land surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. This dead zone is undoubtedly the most brutal and visible trace of the nuclear accident. More than 110,000 people had to pack their bags and leave ghost towns behind them. With little or no street lighting, empty streets and abandoned shops, for the past year, time has been suspended.
These cold, raw photographs show the malaise felt in this forsaken land.
Carlos Ayesta, born in Caracas in 1985 works as independent photographer specialised in architecture photography and photography taken from high vantage point with among others a high rope reportage around the neighbourhood of the Defense in Paris. He was exhibited in 2012 in Paris with the Cartes Blanche of SFR young talents and “ Doisneau- Paris les halles”.
Guillaume Bression has been living in Japan for more than a year he has covered the crisis following the tsunami and the nuclear accident of Fukushima for several newspapers, magazine and television. In his many travels he has made documentaries and more personal phtography projects.
EXHIBITION
Clair Obscur à Fukushima
Festival Circulation(s)
February 22 – March 31, 2013
Parc de Bagatelle
Paris, France
