Chernobyl

A photograph from an essay about Chernobyl by Elena

The pho­to­graph above is from ‘Ghost Town’, a photo essay by Elena (she doesn’t reveal her last name) that I first saw a few years ago and was reminded of this morning while listening to a pair of really inter­esting doc­u­ment­aries on Chernobyl. If you’re inter­ested in Chernobyl, both the radio doc­u­ment­aries and the photo essay are well worth a listen and a look, respectively.

There is quite a lot of pho­to­graphy from Chernobyl on Flickr. The two pho­to­graphs below are from this excel­lent set by blinko­faneye:

A photograph by Phil Coomes of a town near the Chernobyl power station

A photograph by Phil Coomes of an idle ferris wheel in the abandoned town of Pripyat near Chernobyl

There is also this excel­lent set of black and white pho­to­graphs by Jeremy Nicholl.

Thanks to John Gold­smith for the Flickr links.