Fukushima’s Petrarch?
In
April 2011, photographer Tomoki Imai scaled to the top of Mount Tekura,
some 2,000 feet above and 30 kilometers from F. Daiichi. Initially
frightened by Press coverage of the nuclear accident, he soon relaxed
because all he saw was a beautiful spring landscape, "I realized how my
view of Fukushima was being distorted by all the TV images and the
information we were being bombarded with at the time." Imai's personal
experience on Mount Tekura brings to mind Petrarch's catharsis on Mount
Ventoux in the 14th century.
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