In Japan’s Rubble, Glimpses of Lives Past

Following the recent tsunami in Minamisanriku, a fishing port on Japan’s northeastern coast, most of the houses that were built on plains between mountains were gone. As photographer Ko Sasaki walked through the debris of Minamisanriku, a fishing port on Japan’s northeastern coast hit by the recent tsunami, he found very few signs of life. What he did find, spotted throughout the rubble, were photographs, the only fragments of people’s lives that still remained.

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Other photographers to document the personal photographs and albums in the ruins of Minamisanriku include Chris McGrath of Getty Images, David Guttenfelder of The Associated Press, Robert Gilhooly of Bloomberg News and Carlos Barria of Reuters.