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The first time the Tokyo-based photographer Kosuke Okahara visited a town near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, he grabbed his dosimeter, a device used to measure radiation levels, and looked at his watch to see how much time he could spend at the location.

“I was very scared because of radiation,” he said. “After four to five months, I became calm, and I went back to the beginning of why I was taking pictures.”

That was August 2011, five months after an earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan and set off the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

Since then, Mr. Okahara has traveled to Fukushima Prefecture almost every month. On Sept. 6, at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in France, Getty Images awarded him $20,000 to support his investigation of the fallout from the nuclear accident, and of those who suffered most.

“I’m collecting fragments,” Mr. Okahara said of his work, which includes both photos and audio.

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http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/fragments-of-fukushima/

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