/ 2013 / Press / Other_PJ

Tsunami deprived of her mother

  • Prize
    Bronze in Press/General News, Silver in Press/Other
  • Photographer
    Yuki Iwanami, Japan
  • Studio
    The Yomiuri Shimbun

Yuzuha Suzuki, 2, is carried on her father’s back in Onagawa town, Miyagi, Japan, completely devastated by the Tsunami. The tsunami deprived her of her mother and house. She has been living with her father, older brother and sister after the disaster.

Yuki Iwanami was born in Nagano, Japan in 1977, and started his career as a photographer and journalist in 2001. He covered stories in Cambodia, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Then he has joined staff photographer of the Japanese newspaper from 2003. He was based in Tokyo and Sendai, is now in Osaka temporally, covering domestic and world’s news and stories. He keeps covering the stories about the disaster of Tsunami and nuclear power plant occurred in Japan in 2011.