Picturing the invisible | Makoto Takahashi, Lieko Shiga, et. al. | Fw:Books 2025

Picturing the invisible | Makoto Takahashi, Lieko Shiga, et. al. | Fw:Books 2025"Published in memory of the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, Picturing the Invisible explores the realities of life in the wake of this seismic event, which shook Japan to its core. Even today, vast swathes of land remain uninhabitable. More than 35,000 people are unable to return to their homes, and many more choose not to, concerned that life in Fukushima may not be as safe as the government claims. Edited by Makoto

"40 minutes outside london lies a suburban world of alien girls rubbing sleep from their eyes wandering the rooms & parks & spaces they call home wearing 80s swimwear with no pool in sight" - Valerie Phillips

disruptions and experiments

The might be some light dirt on the cover and the slipcase

For 15 years

The forms of regeneration manifested in daily life are very beautiful

the psychiatrist

Through photography

One of the first and second books Tenko came into contact with during her childhood was “Shojo Arisu (Alice)” (1973) by Hajime Sawatari

Akasaka and Aoyama late at night

Some of the people in these photographs I’ve photographed repeatedly over the years

Hajime Kimura has created and exhibited powerful and poetic black-and-white photographs of matters and existence that are little known or forgotten in Japanese society

who had directed a large-scale project in the Ryukyu Islands after the war