| April 26, 2006 |
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Nuclear Nightmares: Twenty Years Since Chernobyl
Twenty  years ago today, the world's worst nuclear disaster blew the roof off the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. For many people, the event seems far off, and much has changed in the decades since. But for those who live in Chernobyl and other former Soviet towns, afflictions from nuclear accidents and experiments remain an intimate part of their lives. Since 1999, photographer Robert Knoth and reporter Antoinette De Jong have traveled through the Ukraine, Urals, Kazakhstan, and Siberia to capture, in searing black-and-white portraits, the way that nuclear radiation has forever altered the humans who face it. Among those photographed are a six-year-old child frozen in a three-year-old's body, a 14-year-old boy with sarcoma of the prostate gland, two sisters with brain tumors, and vast sweeping skies that seem to belie the contamination below. (in Photojournalism) |
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