Non dimentico
watashi wa wasurenai
a photographic exibition by Paola Ghirotti in collaboration with Minamisoma City International Association, beginning Thursday March 10, 2016 in Minamisoma, five years to the day since an enormous earthquake and tsunami struck northeast Japan, devastating coastal regions and setting off a nuclear power plant failure
Minamisōma is about 25 kilometres (16 miles) north of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Fukushima Daiichi Genshiryoku Hatsudensho, approximately a week after the earthquake Minamisōma was in the news as the town's mayor Sakarai Katsunobu asserted that his people had been "abandoned" in the wake of orders for all remaining residents to stay in their homes inside the exclusion zone around the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
On April 15, 2012 the people of Minamisōma were able to return to their homes. The checkpoints at 20 kilometer distance from the reactors were moved to about 10 kilometers from the plant.
Paola Ghirotti explores traditional roots of Japanese culture for more than twenty years. Her work had been published - in Italy and abroad - in books and magazines,
some of them becoming images of reference. Paola edited the special edition of “LIMES”-“Japan: This mystery”, which was published, to universal acclaim, in 2007.
She was given an unusual degree of access to the disaster area few weeks after it was struck in March 2011. The ambassador of Japan in Italy had given her an official recognition for the expressions of solidarity and kindness towards the victims in Tohoku.
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Photographic exibition by Paola Ghirotti
in collaboration with Minamisoma City International Association
Minamisoma shimin bunka kaikan
Fukushima ken
Japan