Chieko Matsukawa pulls a treasure from the ruins of her Higashimatsushima,Japan, home in April 2011—her daughter’s certificate of graduation. Theearthquake and tsunami that rocked her region on March 11, 2011, cost half a million people their homes and more than 15,000 their lives. “But this image,” part of Yasuyoshi Chiba’s “Aftermath of the Tsunami” series, “showed a moment of hope amid all the destruction,” Sartore said. “It kind of shows the human spirit, and we tried to find some moments that spoke to how resilient people are and how they can find little moments of hope or compassion or humor—anything that helps humanity overcome the obstacles that we see in many of these news events.”

Chieko Matsukawa pulls a treasure from the ruins of her Higashimatsushima,Japan, home in April 2011—her daughter’s certificate of graduation. Theearthquake and tsunami that rocked her region on March 11, 2011, cost half a million people their homes and more than 15,000 their lives.

“But this image,” part of Yasuyoshi Chiba’s “Aftermath of the Tsunami” series, “showed a moment of hope amid all the destruction,” Sartore said.

“It kind of shows the human spirit, and we tried to find some moments that spoke to how resilient people are and how they can find little moments of hope or compassion or humor—anything that helps humanity overcome the obstacles that we see in many of these news events.”

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