While Fukushima seems to have disappeared from the news, I now see it cropping up in all kinds of unexpected corners: in the pages of Purple, on blogs, on the shelves of art book stores. One great book I came across, however, was artist Thomas Neumann’s diary Märztage.
Having lived in Tokyo for several years, he juxtaposes personal images from his day to day life with an incessant stream of news chronicling the catastrophe on a larger scale. It’s a simple idea beautifully executed, which as we know are usually the best.
