Abstract
Turning the pages of this book of photographs, every picture seems to say: ‘Think of me, not just as I am now, but what I was more than 25 years ago.’ This 96-page photobook featuring the towns of Chernobyl and Pripyat in Ukraine as they are today – abandoned, overgrown and vandalised – is testimony to the desolation left by nuclear catastrophe. Reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26 1986, releasing one hundred times more radiation than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in the second world war. It led to mass evacuations. More than 500,000 civilians and military personnel have been involved in the decontamination process and this work will continue for hundreds of years. The town of Pripyat was home to 49,000 people. Today it is empty. The photographs say it all: a discarded patient record card in Hospital Number 126, rows of rusting iron cots in the Golden Key Kindergarten and a derelict boxing ring at the cultural centre. Imagine what was, and can never return.
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