Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
No doubt you’ve seen some images from the earthquake and tsunami like these here from the NY Times/AP. The devastation in Japan is horrific, as is the state of affairs, the deaths, missing people, damaged lives and immeasurable property damage. Unthinkable sadness.
The photos too are extremely powerful. In kind, in their quietness, in scale. In short, they are completely surreal. The ability for a photograph to tell a story in a single moment is undeniable. This is journalism, but were it not for a natural disaster, the subject matter of the images reads like a fine art of destruction.
The world’s head and heart are with you Japan. More shocking and surreal images captured by AP reporters in Japan after the jump.
Kyodo News, via Associated Press
Kyodo/Reuters
Kyodo News, via Reuters
Kyodo News, via Associated Press
To see a dozen more of these images, visit the Asia Pacific photo gallery here at the NY Times.
[Images from AP and NYTimes via the respected agencies cited below each image. Post inspired by Rachel’s over at A Photography Blog. Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation to Japan tsunami relief or click here.]
Wow, this is probably the most inappropriate non-news blog entry I read regarding this horrible catastrophe.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Powerful imagery. Thanks for sharing.
Uh, do you have copyright on the photos you’re publishing here?
For all of you true Americans, please, distance yourself from these “true Americans”
http://i.imgur.com/uZbK6.jpg
For comments like this ones, the American nation in whole, should be ashamed, and for those that think just like “true Americans” from the link above, wish you all the best while surfing on tsunami waves.
I totally hear you, Mike. “Horrific” and “fine art?” Some even call the images beautiful. I first thought they were able to feel that way because it’s not happening to them, their family/friends or their country.
But, many of them (Americans) are able to look at some images of World Trade Center on 9/11 and appreciate them as beautiful art. It’s their artistic points of view.
My thoughts and prayers go out to all those victims and their families and friends of terrible disasters, past/present/man-made/natural.
Thanks. Arigato.