Photographer Arkadiusz Podniesinski likes shooting pictures of sites that have been forgotten or hidden away after a natural disaster. He previously shot pictures in the abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone and a few months ago, he obtained a permit to visit the site of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster that hit eastern Japan in March 2011.
1. Abandoned cars being literally swallowed up by wild grass.
2. More cars lie in a forest of grass.
3. The site has a radiation reading of 6.794 uSv/h.
4. A chained motorbike being buried in wild grass.
5. Contaminated radios and television sets piled up and removed as nuclear waste.
6. Cobwebs dominate the room of this abandoned supermarket where items remain unsold and unused.
7. An office lies hauntingly abandoned.
8. This supermarket was once a vibrant part of the community. Today, its remains eerily reflect the darkness of the disaster.
9. A restaurant's hot pot burners remain unused and untouched.
10. These go-karts will never be racing each other again.
11. Musical instruments, notes and a piano are the only occupants of this classroom now.
12. The earthquake caused the floor of the auditorium to sink in.
13. Many bicycles were left behind after residents evacuated the area.
14. The teacher's lesson might be on this board for the rest of eternity.
15. An empty pinball arcade is only home to the ghosts of some of its patrons.
16. An aerial shot of a dumping site shows the vast landscape of plastic bags containing contaminated soil.
17. A sea of black and blue under a horizon of dull gray.
18. The number of bags of contaminated soil only goes to show how much land must have been affected by the disaster.
19. The owner of this cow believes the white spots on its skin developed after it started eating contaminated grass.
20. The sign reads “Nuclear energy is the energy of a bright future” in Japanese.
