Hiroshima Symposium 2020 pt3 - Ari Beser

Mr. Ari Beser is an award-winning visual storyteller, a media lab fellow at the Economist, a Getty Images contributing photographer, a Fulbright National Geographic Fellow, producer, and the author of The Nuclear Family. His grandfather was the only man in the world to fly aboard both planes that dropped the atomic bombs, and his other grandfather was friends with a survivor from Hiroshima. As a Fulbright Fellow, he traveled throughout Japan to interview both atomic bomb survivors and nuclear refugees of Fukushima. Along with that family coincidence involving his grandfathers, the Great East Japan Earthquake would alter the course his work, and his life forever. He will tell his family story, connecting both sides.