Ota Yasusuke

Active as a media photographer in Afghanistan, Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere from the second half of the 1980s to the 1990s. Looked after and photographed abandoned animals in the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Published Nokosareta dōbutsutachi (The Abandoned Animals of Fukushima) in 2011, Machitsuzukeru dōbutsutachi (The Animals of Fukushima Continuing to Wait) in 2012, and Shiro sabi to Matchan (Shiro, Sabi, and Matsumura) in 2015. Continues to work with the animals left behind following the disaster.

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Jun 15, 2016