
{"id":16871,"date":"2011-03-24T10:34:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=16871"},"modified":"2011-03-24T10:34:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T14:34:59","slug":"a-picture%e2%80%99s-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/03\/24\/a-picture%e2%80%99s-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"A picture\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_16872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16872\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/03\/24\/a-picture%e2%80%99s-worth\/japan11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16872\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"japan11\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan11.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan11-113x84.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan11-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO BY WILL BRYANT. Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Angie Brammer and Chris Davidson have been donating 100 percent of the profits from the sale of their Japanese photo prints to victims of the earthquake and tsunami.<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>By Will Bryant<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Angie Brammer went on the Internet on Friday, March 11, she was shocked to see her former home of Yamagata City, Japan, in the middle of a terrible natural disaster. <\/p>\n<p>Brammer taught English to high school students in Japan in 2001 through the Japanese Exchange Teaching Program. She said that upon reading the terrible news, she quickly called her husband, Chris Davidson, who also taught in Yamagata City in 2001. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We just kind of freaked out,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Brammer said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really understand the scope of what happened. It was just unbelievable.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Japan was hit by a devastating 9.0 earthquake, leaving a country with thousands dead, thousands more missing and the threat of widespread radioactive exposure. <\/p>\n<p>Yamagata City received little damage from the earthquake or tsunami, but Brammer and Davidson have heard from their friends in the city that it has become a safe haven for refugees of the disaster. <\/p>\n<p>Brammer says that from one of the most devastated cities of the disaster, Sendai, there is really no way to go but west. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you go north, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to run into more hard-hit areas, and if you go south, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to run into the nuclear reactors,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Brammer said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So the only way to go is west to Yamagata.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Davidson says that they initially received good reports from their friends still living in the city. However, recent updates have illustrated a lack of electricity, a shortage of food and a high demand for gasoline. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Their biggest problem seems to be getting supplies to all those people,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Davidson said. <\/p>\n<p>The hardest part of the situation has been being so far away from the people who need aid, said Brammer. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult to watch it on the TV or the Internet from halfway around the world and to feel like you wish you could do more to help,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. <\/p>\n<p>But despite the 13-hour time difference separating North Carolina and Japan, the Carrboro couple has found a way to give back to the country that gave them so much. Through their online-operated photography business, ABCD Images, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve started donating 100 percent of the profits earned from the purchase of any of their Japanese photo prints. <\/p>\n<p>The photos are comprised mostly of bustling city landscapes and snapshots of everyday Japanese life that the couple took during their year teaching abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Both of us felt compelled to do something to help,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Brammer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The whole situation is overwhelming. I wish we could do more.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Photos can be purchased by signing on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/abcdimages\">abcdimages.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brammer says the inspiration for their charity work has come from the hospitality they received from the locals during their year in Japan. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everyone we met treated us like royalty,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. <\/p>\n<p>While looking at the pictures of the destruction left behind by the earthquake and tsunami, the couple felt they had a close relationship to the strangers featured in the photos. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Even though I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know those particular people, I felt like I did,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Brammer said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I wanted to go and put my hand on their heads \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 just to say that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s OK \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that there is someone here thinking about you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16873\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/03\/24\/a-picture%e2%80%99s-worth\/japan21\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16873\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan21.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"japan21\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan21.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan21-113x112.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan21-112x113.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Twilight Sayonara\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Angie Brammer went on the Internet on Friday, March 11, she was shocked to see her former home of Yamagata City, Japan, in the middle of a terrible natural disaster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16871"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}