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This year’s POY awards are out now. I landed a few mentions:
Photographer of the Year, 2nd Place
Japan’s Nuclear Refugees was named a finalist for POY’s Global Vision award.
Susan Welchman, who edited the Japan’s Nuclear Refugees story for National Geographic, won 1st prize in News Story Editing for Magazines.
Afghanistan’s Opium Wars story editor Sarah Leen received an Award of Excellence in the Issue Reporting Story Editing for Magazines category.
I also got a 3rd place in POY’s Impact 2011 category.
I’m so grateful to National Geographic Magazine, and the AP, for supporting the coverage of Japan’s Nuclear Refugees. Special thanks to NGM editor Susan Welchman, The Hoshi Family, and assistant Noriko Hayashi. World Press Photo 2012, 3rd prize General News stories.
And here’s a list and links to my past WPP recognized photographs.
2009 2nd Prize, People in the News
2006 1st Prize, Daily Life stories
No-man’s land attests to Japan’s nuclear nightmare
AP has put out an extended set of photos I made inside Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone and of the displaced people who fled their contaminated hometowns. The pictures were made between April and August of this year while on assignment for National Geographic Magazine. Text essay by AP Tokyo news editor Eric Talmadge, the reporter who logged more hours in Fukushima than any other in 2011.
An interview I did with Neal Conan on NPR’s Talk of the Nation about Japan’s nuclear refugees. Live from the offices of National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic has posted a selection of my AP images from inside Dai-ichi and a photographer’s journal: Scenes From Japan’s Devastated Nuclear Plant
On assignment for National Geographic Magazine via AP Images, my story “Japan’s Nuclear Refugees” has been posted on National Geographic’s website today and will be on the news stands in the December issue.
Since spring, I’ve been in and out of Japan’s contaminated exclusion zone that surrounds the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Eight months after the triple disaster - the earthquake, tsunami, and reactor meltdown - the communities inside have become ghost towns.
Family pets and farm animals have gone feral and roam the streets. Creeping vines stretch across the roads. Food on kitchen tables has petrified on plates and in bowls. Of course you can’t see or smell radiation but hotspots set dosimeters eerily beeping.
In March, tens of thousands picked up and left for shelters, temporary housing, or the back rooms of family and friends. No one can say when, or if they will return home.
Edited by Susan Welchman. Designed by Elaine H. Bradley. Written by Lucy Craft. Assisted by Noriko Hayashi.
A slide show of my Afghanistan Opium Wars for National Geographic Magazine. Read the story by Robert Draper.
