Inside the Fukushima exclusion zone - photography project

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http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/02/7540760-inside-the-fukushima-exclusion-zone

You can't see it. It's not tangible. It's a fear of the unknown."

Patrik Lundin is telling me what it feels like to be surrounded by an invisible danger: high levels of radiation. Lundin's photography project, 36 Views of The Fukushima Dai-ichi Exclusion Zone, explores the effects of the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear plant following the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11. The work pays homage to Hokusai and is inspired by a series of woodcuttings, 36 Views of Mount Fuji, that the Japanese artist produced between 1826 and 1833.