The Everlasting Shadows Of Hiroshima

 

This impressive photo series shows the everlasting shadows of Hiroshima which were caused by the nuclear bomb. The shadows are caused by the atomic blast. When the heat of the bomb hit a person that was standing close to a wall, the person's body 'protected' the wall. So what you see in the series is an opposite of a burned in image. The enormous heat of the bomb made it to the wall, the curb, building etc. and changed the color of it. The body stopped some of the heat and it created what appears to be a shadow. The person died, horribly of course, but his or her image was left behind to remind us of how terrible the explosion was.