Spéos 2009 Alumni Masamichi Kagaya decided to leave behind as many visual records of the contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 as possible. Working in cooperation with Satoshi Mori, Professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Kagaya has used a technique called autoradiography to make radioactive contamination visible, covering a wide array of specimens from daily necessities to flora and fauna in the past years.
Called Autoradiograph, his project has been presented in Austria in September 2017 during the Ars Electronica Festival where he already received a prize. The project also has received the Special Jury Award (2nd place) in Lianzhou Foto 2017.
This project has been featured in an article by Fisheye Magazine called “Beauté radioactive”, published in page 53 of the special issue for Arles 2017.
Read more articles about Masamichi Kagaya’s project:
– Le Monde, « Sur les traces de la radioactivité à Fukushima »
– Libération, « Une région autoradiographiée »
– Telegraph, « Artist turns Fukushima radiation into art »
– Slate, « Ces photos prouvent l’impact de Fukushima sur les objets de la vie courante »
– Savoie anti-nucléaire, « Ces photos prouvent l’impact de Fukushima sur les objets de la vie courante »
– Okawan, « Le procédé original d’un photographe pour montrer les retombées radioactives »
– Fisheye Magazine, « Beauté radioactive »
– Sciences et Avenir, « La catastrophe de Fukushima révélée en photographies par l’autoradiographie »
– Sciences et Avenir, « Autoradiographie, les effets du dieu nucléaire »
– PROPAAH Magazine #2, « Autoradiograph »
– Radio RTS (Switzerland), « Si la photo est bonne, les traces du nucléaire à Fukushima »