My photo of a photograph by Yoshito Matsushige in the Peace Memorial Museum. He was a news cameraman in August 1945 and took a series of photos just three hours after the bomb was dropped. In 1980 he wrote in the Hiroshima Tokuho:

"...I thought this must be photographed and held the camera in position. The scene I saw through the finder was too cruel. Among the hundreds of injured persons of whom you cannnot tell the difference between male and female, there were children screaming 'It's hot, it's hot!' and infants crying over the body of their mother who appeared to be already dead. I tried to pull myself together by telling myself that I'm a news cameraman, and it is my duty and privilege to take a photograph, even if it is just one, and even if people take me as a devil or a cold-hearted man. I finally managed to press the shutter, but when I looked the finder for the second time, the object was blurred by tears."


For me, standing within metres of the Hiroshima A-Bomb hypocentre, 60 years on from the event, I found this image incredibly powerful and evocative. Hiroshima is an important place to visit if you have the chance.