22nd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
Atomic Shadows

Okamoto’s “Myth of Tomorrow”, displayed in Shibuya Station, depicts the horrors of nuclear war, centered around an exploded skeleton. To conceptualize this theme, I layered long exposures, creating a "vaporizing" effect akin to Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s atomic shadows. A man leaning by the mural’s plaque mirrors the skeleton.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 02.2023
Date Uploaded: 10.2024
Photo Location: Tokyo, Japan
Camera: NIKON Z 7_2
Copyright: © Eric Seidner