Japan After the Wave

General News, third prize stories

March 5, 2012

Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan

Children walk home from school as workers clear the rubble of a damaged house.

A year after the March 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated large areas of northeastern Japan, thousands of people remained without homes, and the Japanese government was still struggling to dispose of rubble and help rebuild livelihoods.

Commissioned by: Getty Images

Photo Credit: Daniel Berehulak

Daniel Berehulak is an independent photojournalist based in Mexico City.

A native of Sydney, Australia, and a regular contributor to The New York Times, he has visited more than 60 countries covering history-shaping events, including the Iraq and Afghan wars, the trial of Saddam Hussein, Ebola’s spread in West Africa and most recently the war on drugs in the Philippines. He focuses on news and social issues and on those affected.

In 2015 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for his coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa for The New York Times. In 2011 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 2010 Pakistan floods.

His photography has earned five World Press Photo awards and he has twice been named Photographer of the Year from Pictures of the Year International, 2014 and 2015, and most recently named the Photojournalist of the Year for large-circulation publications in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism 2016 contest.