Photographs of the landscape left behind after Fukushima’s nuclear disaster

Andrea Bonisoli Alquati has been researching and photographing the ecological effects of nuclear disasters since 2007. First, he was doing so in Chernobyl and since 2012 he’s photographed in Fukushima’s exclusion zone, where as part of his PhD research he assesses the health and condition of individual animals, populations and community dynamics in the area.

While his research is focussed on radiation damage and its impact on local ecologies, his photographs investigate the eerie landscapes and structures left behind. “The uneasiness comes from the sense of abandonment,” Andrea says. "From the striking absence of people… and the fundamental danger of contamination that we cannot perceive with our senses.”