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Over at Aperture’s Exposures Blog, they have an article about Lost & Found: 3.11 Photographs from Tohoku, an exhibit of photographs salvaged from areas that were hit by the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
I’ve been meaning to post this here for a few days, but every time I go to look at it, I can’t stop watching the slideshow. Not only are the photographs both beautiful and haunting, the Lost & Found Project (http://lostandfound311.jp/en/) is an incredible effort that’s doing valuable work in reuniting people with their photos.
[via Exposures]
Wow, no kidding about those photos–mesmerizing. As art objects on their own, they’re gorgeous. Overlaid with the fact that they’re multimedia collaborations of the people who took the photos and Mother Nature at her most violent, then couple that with the emotions attached to the memories embodied by the photos themselves and by the tragedy of the tsunami…it’s like an art installation whose force few visual artists could match. Powerful stuff.