Cracked Grounds and Houses

“A woman using a cell phone examined the littered ground in Kesennuma, a seaside town in Miyagi Prefecture, where her house stood before it was done destroyed on March 11 by the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan.”

This picture was taken by Carlos Barria on March 28^th, 2011. This image is used to show the aftermath of the tsunami and earthquake that happened in Japan on March 11^th, 2011. Japan was hit by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and followed after by a tsunami leaving Japan in devastation.

In this particular image you can feel the pain and suffering from not only the lady pictured but the whole community who may have lived there. This natural disaster caused this woman to be in a place where she once lived but no longer recognizes. She comes back to this spot where she use to live only to see her things along with others in a million pieces. When I see this picture I feel that the blurry sheds and buildings in the background and the sharp images in front demonstrate or stress the importance of help that Japan needs. Looking at her facial expression on the phone makes me feel like she’s telling her family what exactly it is that she’s looking at, and sharing all the emotions of being at what use to be her home.

This picture works well to illustrate the pain and misfortunate that most of Japan is currently going through. I think this picture works well alone, because it shows us expressions from a human being, ruined and abandoned houses from the earthquake. I feel this picture could open the eyes of people outside of Japan who may not know what’s going on. This is really happening and although this happened a few weeks ago, there are thousands of people still without homes.