A seemingly uneventful domestic space that was meant to provide comfort and security was unexpectedly interrupted and transformed into a site of fear, uncertainty and frenetic chaos by the force of Nature and subsequent disasters. Shot over a three-month period, PANIC ROOM documents a small Tokyo apartment before and after the Great East Japan earthquake in 2011. The ordinary apartment suddenly becomes a mirror of both a collapsing physical reality and a shaken personal state, creating an intertwining parallel between the external and the psychological that reflects the panicking times of the great catastrophe.

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History