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Itβs been 80 years since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The explosion etched βnuclear shadowsβ like scars across the cityβformed in the likenesses of any people or objects standing in the path of the blast. (80 years later, you can still see the shadow of a Hiroshima bomb victim.)ο»Ώ
Oregon-based photographer Will Matsuda was inspired by the legacy of the nuclear shadows. On a recent trip to Hiroshima, he made these images that honor the resiliency of the city and the memory of his relatives, who he only recently learned were killed in the bombing.
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Photograph by WILL MATSUDA |
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To create them, Matsuda held pieces of photographic paper up to objects while quickly exposing them to a light source. The process imprints the shadow of an object on the paperββin the same way that the violent process of the bomb did,β he says. |
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Photograph by JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK |
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