The single eye of a cyclops baby preserved in a jar of formalin gazes out, unblinking. Beside it, the eyeless face of a severely disfigured boy seems to melt from his head, the swollen eyebrows and cheeks blinding him permanently.
These were some of the disturbing images of deformities at a recent exhibition in Tokyo by photographer Takashi Morizumi, who traveled to Kazakstan to document what he calls the tragic legacy of four decades of nuclear weapons tests there by the former Soviet Union.
"Is it right to show shocking photos of deformed children?" Morizumi asked, standing by a shot of a hydrocephalus baby with a balloon-size head, frozen in a silent, black-and-white scream.