Final Vectors - Hiroshima

my Hiroshima postcard I wanted to focus on a personal perspective visually, as it was the personal experience and perspective of Tsutomu Yamaguchi that inspired me to investigate this city and respond to it. Most photographs of the explosion are taken from far away, to grasp the scope and the size of the cloud, so I tried to visualise what it would actually look like to a person on the ground. The red gate is a Japanese cultural construction called a Torii Gate, and they are believed to be crossing over points for the natural and spirit world. I thought this imagery was appropriate in further visually explaining my ideas, as the mass destruction caused at Hiroshima would have erased the border between the real world and the afterlife for a lot of people. I chose to leave the explosion without colour to infer the chilling silence the bomb appears to produce for a few seconds before the shockwaves fully expand. To improve this piece Id want to try some different configurations of the line of sight and the Torii gate, as I don't think the composition is as dynamic as it could have been.