Fukushima NO ALICE is a photography project to archive present tense landscapes of Fukushima prefecture, Japan with the presence of a Japanese Lolita girl as Alice, a fictional character from Lewis Carrol's "Alice's Adventures in the Wonderland". With her existence in each photography, we are no longer certain if the current situation in Fukushima is real or just a bad dream. From radiological contamination by the explosions of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to various blows from unfounded rumors induced, Fukushima NO ALICE aims to visually surface and re-evaluate critical issues as such through the eyes of Alice. FUKUSHIMA is such a generalized or stereotyped term for such large areas of land spread from East to West. As of 2020 the lives of most part of the prefecture seem normal as before the incident, where areas of Namie and Futaba in the East are set no man's land for at least for few decades. This is a statement about FUKUSHIMA where it became one of the most famous places on the earth. As I have a Samurai ancestry in Fukushima, we are returning to sustain and to provoke international attention to re-evaluate the way we see Fukushima.
Fukushima NO ALICE: Black is the project's second phase with a Lolita visiting Fukushima for the first time.
