I wanted to keep this photo for as the last one because this it is the place that impressed me the most in all of Pripyat…
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Chernobyl drama: #9 The 5th cooling tower
Around 1981, two new reactors were planned, the reactor number 5 and number 6. This photo refers to reactor number 5, which at the time of the Chernobyl accident was 70% completed…
Read MoreChernobyl drama: #8 The palace of culture Energetik
The palace of culture Energetik, which is a play on words since it means both "energetic (lively) and working power plant, was a multipurpose center which included a theater, cinema, library, swimming pool, boxing ring, halls rooms, meeting rooms, a polygon in the basement and a gym…
Read MoreChernobyl drama: #7 The Kindergarten
I have seen many photos about Chernobyl, Pripyat and the exclusion zone in general…
Read MoreChernobyl drama: #6 The lonely school desk
Before the nuclear accident occurred on Saturday the 26 April 1986 , there were 5 schools that provided education for young middle and high school students…
Read MoreChernobyl drama: #5 Bermuda Triangle
This place struck me for this simplicity in such a context, but there’s also a simple story behind, and a much happier one, which contributed to raise the contrast between this tv and the devastation all around…
Read MoreChernobyl drama: #3 Data collection center - meeting room
The Duga radar was accompanied, for most of its length, by a structure that extended along a long and straight corridor, which without the presence of artificial lighting remains very dark…
Read MoreChernobyl drama: #2 Duga radar
The woodpecker, the nickname given to the Duga, a shortwave band military radar, which could be received all over the world (76-89). The Duga was born with the intention of creating a radar system that would be able to detect a possible missile attack by the United States. Obviously today, with radar technology but above all satellite technology, such a system would be totally useless.Being under the Duga makes you feel very small.. I wanted to photograph it because the Duga is now being dismantled, and it will no longer be possible to see it. It is a beast 150 meters high, 90 meters wide and 900 meters long.
The radio signal was a source of many speculations, such as theories about weather and mind control from the Soviets.
Chernobyl drama: #1-Vehicles storage
It has been a long time since I wanted to dedicate space to the project on Chernobyl and Pripyat…
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