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Publisher Note

"The earthquake and subsequent tsunami of March 11th, 2011, near Japan's Tohoku region, led to the catastrophic equipment failures and nuclear disaster of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Six months later, on September 15th, the Japanese government prohibited the gathering and ingestion of any mushrooms grown in the forty-three cities of Fukushima prefecture. Traces of radiation exceeding safety limits were detected in some wild mushroom varieties. Fungi inherently absorb radiation much more rapidly than other organisms. My Geiger counter detected a greatly elevated level of radiation in the lush forests of Fukushima when compared to the region's urban areas. The wild mushrooms in the photographs assembled here are from those forests.”
Takashi Homma

Photobook

Mushrooms from the Forest 2011

by Takashi Homma

Work  
Topics Fukushima, Japan, Nuclear Power Plants, Nuclear Power Station, Tsunami
Language English, Japanese
Format Softcover
Dimensions 17.5 × 26.0 cm
Pages 288