As a photographer whose roots are in Fukushima, Tadao Mitome feels a duty to continue capturing images of the area to document the effects of the nuclear disaster triggered by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011.

On March 11 this year, the third anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Mitome, 75, published a photo book titled "3/11 Fukushima: Hibaku no Bokujo" ("Stock Farm Exposed to Radiation"), documenting a farm in the village of Iitate and its dying horses.

"People should do whatever they are capable of doing," Mitome said in a recent interview. "I take photos because I'm a photographer."