Hiroshima overexposed - Hijiyama to Aioi Bridge

While I was in Hiroshima in June I spent a morning walking from Hijiyama Park to the Aioi Bridge, a distance of about 2 km. The neighborhoods I walked through were destroyed by the atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Many of the people who were living in the area died in the moments following the explosion.

As I walked from Hijiyama Park to the Aioi Bridge, which was used as the target for the bomb, I photographed people I passed in the street. By overexposing each image, I imagined the people caught in their various activities at the precise moment of an atomic flash.

Sixty-six years later, the nuclear threat is still with us. The threat will only be lifted when we achieve full nuclear disarmament.

Comments

[Chris Noble]

Bill, the "overexposed Hiroshima" is brilliant (no pun intended).

[William Landry]

Thanks, Chris! I overexposed a previous photo shoot by mistake. That gave me the idea to overexpose on purpose. The walk in Hiroshima seemed like the right time to do it. I hope you and the family are enjoying the second half of the summer.