On August 6, Hiroshima was irrevocably altered by the atomic bombing that reshaped the city and its people. The Atomic Bomb Dome remains as one of the few structures left standing near the hypocenter, preserved not as a ruin, but as a historical witness.
Today, the site exists in quiet contrast to its past. Visitors move slowly through the space, observing, reflecting, and acknowledging a history that cannot be fully grasped in a single visit. The absence of daily life is replaced by presence — human, thoughtful, and restrained.
This series documents the interaction between people and place, where photography becomes an act of remembrance rather than observation. The Dome does not narrate history; it holds it. What remains is not only a structure, but a responsibility to remember, to reflect, and to carry forward the lessons embedded within its silence.
In framing this site through contemporary human presence, the images acknowledge the distance between past and present while refusing detachment. Each figure, pause, and gesture becomes part of an ongoing dialogue between memory and time — reminding us that history endures not only in monuments, but in how we choose to stand before them.
