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Bad dreams 
How do we depict something not seen or felt? Instead of adopting a documentary approach to this project, we decided to stage the photographs using plastic bubbles and cellophane wrap to reveal the “invisible”. Here, fiction reveals reality, not vice versa. Before looking at the photographs, please note that all the settings were real, with minimal photo retouching involved.

We requested the involvement of people whose hearts and minds were directly touched by the threat of radiation – the residents of Fukushima – to depict tangible frontiers between what is and isn’t contaminated. The result is a series of blurred and subjective frontiers.

That said, the affected communities, countryside and forests are actually divided between those now accessible and those to which entry remains prohibited.

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Special thanks :

Special thanks to all the residents of Fukushima involved in this project, for the moments and the stories they shared with us.

Takashi Nakajima, Hirohagu Yoshinari, Kohdai Tanji, Akemi Shima, Yoshihiko Ooyama, Kenji Sato, Shinji Handa, Takahashi Tsugyo, Chiaki Watanabe, Katsuyuki Yashima, Kazuhiro Onuki, Diana RIKO, Rieko Matsumoto, Koto Ishizuka, Nayuta Ito, Chi-chan, Fu-chan, Yasushi Ishizuka, Taeko Ishizuka, Setsuro Ito, Naoto Matsumura, Norikazu Nakazato, Matsubaya Corporation,  Shoichi Kojima, Noboru Eda, Nozomi Ueda, Honoka Kurabeishi, Midori Ito, Shotaro Haga, Atsushi, Tomomi, Kanoko Sato, Yosuke Ogata, Masayoshi Kawada, Hidemasa & Michiko Otaki, Hiroyuki Igari, Kenichi Kubota ...

 

For the book wouldn't have been published without all our kind Kickstarter contributors and without the generous help of our partner OGF, its president Philippe Lerouge as well as Manuela de la Pena and Jean Ruellan. 

This photographic project was made possible by the long-term support of Chanel Nexus Hall, especially its president Richard Collasse and his staff Hiroko Nara, Mika Ishida, Asami Yanagi, Osamu Ouchi.

 

And personal thanks to Kiwa Wakabayashi, Carole Aftalion, Marie Linton, Quentin Tyberghien, Christian Caujolle and Dominique Roynette for their commitment.

Kiwa Wakabayashi (fixer/producer) www.9-1films.com

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