Mayumi Suzuki is a Japanese photographer residing in Tokyo, Japan. In 2011, a massive tsunami had hit the coast of Japan, and ultimate destroyed her family's photography business. Throughout her series, she captures the aftermath of the tsunami within the community.
Suzuki's theme is to capture the effects that this tsunami still has on Japan's society. Within her portraits, she chooses to use natural lighting with a natural pose. Her use of shadows and lighting collectively creates a sense of everyday dreariness and feeling of hopelessness.
What impacted me the most of Mayumi Suzuki's work, was that even though the Japanese tsunami was enormous in the news, was that there are still many stories and struggles that never come to the limelight often. Especially in today's society, we all tend to focus on ourselves, or useless pop cultural updates. Japan is one of the most developed countries in the world, and I can only imagine what other countries that have been dealing with.
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