母子は山形に避難し、お父さんは隣町の原町に居を構えて仕事をしている。
建物はもう取り壊されて、ない。原発事故さえなければ家族が揃って生活の再建ができただろうが、もう帰る場所すらなくなってしまったことを、先日空き地となったその場所をみて思った。
「家は取り壊したから貰った写真はよい記念になったよ」
帰る場所がある僕にはそのお言葉を貰っても複雑な気持ちになった。
南相馬市小高区. 2012年
a place to come back
I met a family, who cleaned their belongings in Odaka, where was etacuation area at that time.
The
mother and her children took refugee to Yamagata prefecture and the
father moved alone to next town, Haramachi and continued to his work.
Their
home has been already destroyed. They would reconstructed their home
and take back their life just like before the Tohoku earthquake, if
Fukushima's accident hadn't been happened. I realised they lost the
place to come back when I went and saw the vacant land.
The
father told me that the picture I shot and gave him became memorable,
but I had mixed feelings because I`ve got the place to come back.