FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 3,2012
ASATSU-DK INC.

ASATSU-DK publishes“Photo Letter from Minami Sanriku Vol.2 2011. 9.11～2012. 3.11”
This volume contains Sato’s photographic observations from September 11, 2011 to the memorial
Ceremony on March 11, 2012.
ASATSU-DK INC. (President & Group CEO: Yoji Shimizu; Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; hereinafter “ADK”)
publishes “Photo Letter from Minami Sanriku Vol.2 2011.9.11～2012.3.11”. This work, the sequel to “Photo Letter fromMinami Sanriku 2011.3.11～2011.9.11” published in September 2011, is a collection of the photographs Shinichi Sato
continues to take of the town of Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture. The photos capture the enormous devastation in theGreat East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
From every purchase of the photography collection, 300 yen will be donated as aid money to Minami-Sanriku Town.
Additionally, all further profits will be donated as aid money.
<Overview of Photography Collection>
Photo Letter from Minami Sanriku Vol.2 2011.9.11 ~2012.3.11
Photographer/ Author： Shinichi Sato
Official URL: http://www.minamisanriku-kara.com/vol2
Format: B5 paper/96 pages
Publication Date: June 30th, 2012
Price: 1,500 yen (tax excluded)*From each purchase, 300 yen will be donated toMinami-Sanriku Town.
Publisher：ADK Support Project for Restoration of MINAMISANRIKU Released By: NIHONBUNGEISHA Co.,LtdPhoto Letter from Minami Sanriku Vol.2 2011.9.11～2012.3.11 (second in the series)
As the sequel to the original, this volume is a photo letter woven from Sato’s thoughts and photographic observations
from September 11, 2011 to the memorial ceremony held March 11, 2012. The photography collection is part of anongoing effort by Mr. Sato to record for posterity the travails of his hometown and loved ones by documenting its
recovery over a 10-year span. In the spirit of Mr. Sato’s conviction that “the important thing is to continue,” ADK is
proud to publish this sequel.
ADK plans to continuously and periodically publish a “Photo Letter from Minami Sanriku series. This project will
convey the true form of the disaster area, as opposed to shocking

reporting of fragmented information.

＜Overview of Photography Collection＞

Abroad,starry on New Year's Eve(Shizukawa

Children viewing photos of MinamisanrikuPrimary School)

before the tsunami

People praying at the memorial ceremony

Message pasted on the wall of the Chiba Seaweed(March 11, 2012)

Store reads: “To the future we once knew.”Handwritten messages from local townspeoplePhoto Letter from Minami Sanriku 2011. 3.11～2011. 9.11
The first entry in the series records the people of Minamisanriku as they struggle to move forward, even as they grieve
the people and things they lost in the Great East Japan Earthquake. For six months from March 11 to September 11,
2011, despite suffering directly from the disaster himself, Mr. Sato continued to document his hometown and its
people in photographs. This book is the result of that journey.
This volume won the 2012 Kodansha Publication Culture Award for Photography. The judges praised the work for its
understated expression of the sorrows and anger arising from the tsunami, and for its collection of photos that could
only have been captured by one who had suffered from the disaster himself. No mere visitor could have captured thesegripping images<Author Profile>
Shinichi Sato

Born in 1966 in Minami-Sanriku Town, Motoyoshi County, Miyagi Prefecture.
Together with his parents, operated a photography studio name “Saryo Studio” inMinami-Sanriku Town. However, he lost both his home and studio to the tsunami
occurring after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11th, 2011. “I will takephotos from the hardest of times. This way, whatever happens in the future, wecan all overcome together.” Using a single camera which he took before
evacuating, beginning from immediately after the earthquake, he continues tophotograph the devastated town’s path to reconstruction.
“Photo Letter from Minami Sanriku 2011.3.11~2011.9.11”
Won the Kodansha Publication Culture Award for Photography[Inquiries]
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