What the photographer saw

Early in the morning, Naoshi Sato, 78, a tsunami survivor, uses a plastic megaphone to greet and to cheer his neighbors who live at a small temple building called Fudoudo on the other side of the village in Kesencho, Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, April 14, 2011, about one month after the tsunami hit the area. Out of some 550 homes, all but two were destroyed and only three structures, including Fudoudo, were left standing. Most survivors evacuated Kesencho, but 15 residents refused to abandon their town, living in Fudoudo or their destroyed homes amid debris — without electricity or running water.

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