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MICHAEL MORGENSTERN: THINGS FALL APART IN JAPAN

May 11, 2010

For the Economist's latest commentary on Japan, Michael Morgenstern used crumbling ladders to symbolize Japan's fragmenting party system.

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"The article presents the irony of too many leaders striving for the top, without enough popular support to sustain the old or new parties. I placed one large broken ladder in the center of the image, framing the large red sun against the white sky - the symbol of the Japanese flag."

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