After Shocks

• Photographer
  Taro Karibe, Japan

On 14th and 16th of April, 2016, Historical twin earth quake jolted Kumamoto area, Japan.
After the magnitude 6.2 fore-shock, magnitude 7.3 main-shock struck the area.
The series of earth quake killed at least 48 people, injured about 3,000 others in the
total, and more than 44,000 people have been evacuated.

Taro Karibe (b.1988) is a Japanese photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. After he received a Bachelor of Psychology at Nanzan University (Nagoya, Japan) in 2012, he started working for a commercial bank as a corporate sales manager and system developer. In 2015, he started a career as a freelance Photographer in Tokyo, Japan. His main concern is to document social issues from psychological perspective, and extract social system structure/modern human identity, by using camera as a tool. His works have been published internationally in publication such as The New York Times, International New York Times,British Journal of Photography,The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, The guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, New York Post and so on.

Awards 2017 PDN Photo Annual (Documentary and Journalism category )
2016 Critical Mass 2016 Top50
Ueno Hikoma Award Shortlisted
2014 Sony World Photography Awards National Award, 2nd place