On a delta cradled in a valley through which seven rivers flow sits the city of Hiroshima. A bustling port town before the Second World War, it was reduced by the atomic bomb dropped on 6 August 1945 to a mass of ash, rubble and death; the rivers, however, remained, ribbons of water cutting through the irradiated desolation as they flowed silently to the sea. The attack and its aftermath, the defining moment of the city's modern history, continue to inform it, as it was reborn as a symbol of the possibility of peace arising from the destruction of war. Many photographers have investigated the effects of the attack over seventy years, and Here Goes River adds to the theme with a sensitivity that only someone raised in such a place can have. The snapshot approach concerns itself less with morals or instruction for the future than with the elements of the city that make its past reverberate in the present: images of life, remembrance, mundane modernity and innocence orbit the Atomic Bomb Dome, the nucleus of the series, while the seven waterways flow through the pictures. The book also evokes other streams of the city, the flows of tourists, citizens, shopping arcades and the web of trolley cars: a flow of connections between individuals, society, life and death, a moving current of moments.